Sanctifying Intimate Relationships

Intimate relationships bring two people together in a unique emotional and physical connection. This is something to celebrate, whether through the public festivity of a wedding, or in the private reflection of immersion in the mikveh. Sanctifying our intimate relationships elevates these unions and gives them a context of meaning and joy.

Latest Rituals

A Sensory Mikvah

A reinterpretation of the mikvah ritual to perform when full immersion is not possible.

accessibility, mikveh, renewal, transition

white hands cupping water over a body of water

Sheva brakhot for the “spiritual-but-not-religious”

“Blessed is the Abundance of Love that envelops this couple and those who rejoice with them.”

Jewish wedding, sheva brakhot

Two glasses of red wine clinking against a warm golden background with lit candles.

Tisch Songsheets

Three songsheets to use for a tisch- for weddings or other occasions.

celebration, joy, music, tisch, wedding

outlines of people dancing against a rainbow shaded background

Tefilat HaDerekh: Driving You to Your Wedding. Coming Home Without You.

A beautiful wedding day prayer from parent to child.

parenting, weddings

a bride steps out of a car

An Offering

You offered to walk with me around Queen Anne Hill, holding my hand / You offered to take me out again. / What was the meaning of these offerings? /

home, love, marriage, relationships

two people hold hands in a grassy field who are wearing identical pink wristbands that say "camping"

Breaking of the Glass through Creation Story Lens

This ritual reinvents the Breaking of the Glass and turns it into a physical moment using breath and soil.

breaking the glass, Jewish wedding, wedding

flowered chuppah at the end of an aisle

Egalitarian Bedeken

Bedeken, Jewish wedding, wedding

a blessing of two people under a tallit

The Shape of Holiness

“Instead of color and shape and symbols or frame / I ponder what is holy…”

a ketubah with a voting badge hanging on the frame

Sheva Brachot: An Interpretive Nondenominational Translation

This is a new interpretation of the traditional Seven Blessings used in a Jewish wedding ceremony.

Jewish wedding, seven blessings, sheva brachot, wedding

two simple gold wedding bands

Blessing of Love Celebrating the Respect for Marriage Act

“We celebrate the triumph / Of love over hate”

joy, LGBTIQ, LGBTQ, love, same-sex wedding, social justice

queer couple - one in a white bridal gown and one in a blue suit - embracing under a chuppah with a rabbi wearing a rainbow tallit