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.

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“May you never feel alone for you will always have each other”

“With you, we see a future we can only begin to imagine”

“We wrote this ritual to mark the adoption of our son, who was weeks away from his 18th birthday at the time”

Ritual haircutting ceremony for children

“Let imagination flow through these portals”

A prayer for fathers

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