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Welcoming & Raising Children

We greet each child with affection and joy. Every baby comes to us full of promise and potential. As parents, we are privileged to welcome them into our families, our communities, and the embrace of the Jewish people. Raising children to adulthood, we encounter many milestones along the way. Children are weaned, lose their teeth, and start school. Some get their driver’s licenses and eventually leave home for good. Here are rituals for welcoming children and for celebrating the milestones on their paths to adulthood.

Latest Rituals

Celebrating the gift of life through faith, love, and courage

mother snuggling baby

Blessing to be recited by the officiant to the new parents at the welcoming ceremony

mother father baby

A new ritual in which the infant is offered something to stimulate each of her senses

baby bundled in brown knitted fabric

Modern prayer

mother and baby girl

A modern prayer for a baby naming

father baby book

A traditional blessing for a girl’s baby naming

newborn girl with headdress

God incorporates all future generations into the covenant at Mt. Sinai

person shown far away in silhouette against a sky in which the sun has set and the sky is blue yellow and orange

Readings celebrating the uniqueness of each child

Four people in profile walking with the sunset behind them

From a traditional Zeved Habat, with slight modifications

silhouette of man holding baby in air

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Jewish practices provide us with valuable frameworks to foster awareness and joy through gratitude.

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