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Welcoming & Raising Children

Close-up of adult hands with rings holding a childs hand, symbolizing family and unity.

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

Teaching a child Torah for the first time

Adult and child holding hands, walking on a sunlit street. The child wears a red coat and a beanie.

Ceremony of redemption of the first-born child

newborn baby with dark hair

A welcoming and naming ceremony for a new baby

A couple lovingly gazes at a newborn baby lying on a bed, wrapped in a white blanket.

A mother’s prayer for her child

mother and baby

Original song based on Pslams for a baby girl blessing, bat mitzvah, or wedding

A person with a backpack stands on river rocks, surrounded by a lush forest.

A poem on tending to a sick a baby at the hospital during Passover

metal spoon

A blessing for a premature baby

newborn baby wrapped in blue blanket

A blessing of strength and resilience for a premature baby

father son and newborn baby
A ritual to acknowledge the transitional moment of transferring a child from a custodial parent to another parent
 
A woman hugs a child while a man stands nearby in a bright, spacious area.

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