Jewish tradition teaches us that every child who comes into the world has the potential to bring greater holiness into our lives, and that this holiness is particularly powerful in the relationship between children and their parents (and between children and their grandparents/godparents). more >
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Parents can share this ritual and prayer with children. This is based on traditional liturgy, the bedtime Shema. more >
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A prayer for the journey, for the going forth and the coming back.
The first step across thresholds, a nod to the mezuzah guarding the gateways of our lives. more >
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Death is always personal. We filter our pain through the memories of loss felt and held in the recesses of our hearts and the fiber of our beings. more >
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It's here in all the pieces of my shame
that now I find myself again.
I yearn to belong to something, to be contained
in an all-embracing mind that sees me
as a single thing.
I yearn to be held
in the great hands of your heart—
oh let them take me now.
Into them I place these fragments, my life,
and you, God—spend them however you want.
Amen.
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Bo v’shalom ve tzat b’shalom – go in peace and return in peace –
May your journeys be blessed.
May you be kept safe from all harm.
May you never feel alone
May your eyes open to beauty and deep meaning.
May you travel in peace.
Amen.
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