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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

Modern prayer invoking the foremothers

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God makes a covenant with Abraham, commands Abraham to circumcise himself and his descendants, and changes Abraham and Sarah’s names

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Giving the first gift, the gift of a name

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Modern prayer in Hebrew and English invoking the matriarchs

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A joyous prayer for a child’s first home coming

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A traditional Yiddish tekhine

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Blessing over wine, said at all joyous gatherings. Included are masculine and feminine blessings and a non-gendered blessing by liturgist Marcia Falk.

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Revised traditional “Harakhaman” for a baby naming

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A parents’ pledge to their infant son

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For optional incorporation into a baby naming ceremony

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