As our relationships grow and deepen, many of us seek to celebrate these changes. We offer blessings and rituals to sanctify the complexity of our intimate relationships and celebrate their resilience. Expand
Brit Horim: A New Parent Ketubah By Zvika Krieger "becoming a parent is a significant lifecycle event and merits its own ritual" more Tags: parent, baby naming, brit milah
Back in the Garden By Rabbi Sonja K. Pilz, PhD "Your love is running honey" more Tags: heart, love, Song of Songs
Everything Is But a Moment: A Meditation on Kohelet By Rabbi Lewis John Eron "Death compliments birth, they form the bookends of life..." more Tags: meditation, mourning, megillah, welcoming, Ecclesiastes
Self-Rescue: Prayer for Tending to Ourselves During Marriage By Devon Spier Rescuing our own selves was really the beginning more Tags: love, lost, water
Design Your Own Ritual with a Little Help from a Rabbi By Rabbi Kami Knapp Ritual helps us pay attention. From the joy of a recovery to the grief of a funeral, ritual helps us inhabit the breadth of human experience. more
Renewing the Marital Promise: Reyim Ahuvim By Renée S. Septimus A Jewish version of renewing vows to celebrate an anniversary or life change or to re-commit after a particular trying time or marital crisis more Tags: shehekheyanu, sheva brakhot, vows, mezuzah, anniversary
Tena'im By Rabbi Laurie Zimmerman and Rabbi Renee Bauer A new tena'im (engagement) document for same-gender and mixed-gender couples more Tags: LGBTIQ, tenaim
Egalitarian Tena'im By Orrin Wolpert Written for two men; adaptable for any two partners more Tags: LGBTIQ, tenaim, Ecclesiastes