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Milestone Birthdays

Birthday cake and presents are fun, but ritual adds meaning and depth to milestone birthday celebrations as we express gratitude and blessings for another year lived.

Latest Rituals

Alchemy of Blessing
"Whatever makes you weep / may it open your eyes"
Janice Steinberg
Third Age Ritual
Transition ritual into a new stage of life for older people
Kitty Hoffman
Elders' Prayer
"Let our prayers help unbind / the knots of this world..."
Cathy Cohen
Everything Is But a Moment: A Meditation on Kohelet
"Death compliments birth, they form the bookends of life..."
Rabbi Lewis John Eron
Communal Acts of Private Intimacy: A Review of Trisha Arlin’s Place...
Design Your Own Ritual with a Little Help from a Rabbi
For Sharing Divine Gifts
A poem acknowledging we each have divine gifts.
Alden Solovy
A Birthday Poem of Gratitude
"I would like to bless us ... To go naturally, and simply, and glowing on the face of the earth"
Tamara Gilberstein
Birthdays, Jewishly
An article about the meaning of birthdays in Jewish tradition and how to make birthdays more meaningful, Jewishly
Lisa Farber Miller and Sandra Widener

Alchemy of Blessing

By Janice Steinberg

"Whatever makes you weep / may it open your eyes" more

Tags: birthdays

Third Age Ritual

By Kitty Hoffman

Transition ritual into a new stage of life for older people more

Tags: aging

Elders' Prayer

By Cathy Cohen

"Let our prayers help unbind / the knots of this world..." more

Tags: aging

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

Communal Acts of Private Intimacy: A Review of Trisha Arlin’s Place Yourself

By Alden Solovy

Like the liturgists of old, Arlin’s work troubles us where we are too comfortable and comforts us when we are troubled more

Tags: blessing, blessing circle, Esther, creation, Amidah, healing, heart, joy, journey, intention, shema, shiva, tashlikh, teshuvah

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

For Sharing Divine Gifts

By Alden Solovy

A poem acknowledging we each have divine gifts. more

A Birthday Poem of Gratitude

By Tamara Gilberstein

"I would like to bless us ... To go naturally, and simply, and glowing on the face of the earth" more

Tags: birthdays

Birthdays, Jewishly

By Lisa Farber Miller and Sandra Widener

An article about the meaning of birthdays in Jewish tradition and how to make birthdays more meaningful, Jewishly more

Tags: birthdays, upshirin

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