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LifeCycles

Sections below: 

Individuals  Couples  Babies Parents/Grandparents Bar/Bat Mitzvah

Healing/Illness  Death/Mourning  CJLS LifeCycle Teshuvot {new!}

 

For Individuals

Your Jewish Journey

Hazak (55+)

The Shefa Mikvah Page

Jewish Domestic Violence: A Response

Elliot N. Dorff: "Family Violence"

Also see:

   The MyJewishLearning.com "Conversion" Page

   The "Conversion" Resource page from RitualWell.org

 

For Couples

Pre-marital exercise

Planning a Wedding

Sample GLBTQ Marriage/Partnering Rituals

A "Kosher" Wedding

Also see:

   The MyJewishLearning.com Marriage Page

   The LGBT Resource library from Jewish Mosaic

   Jewish Weddings/Partnering Cermonies from Ritualwell.org

 

For Babies

Naming a Baby

Circumcision: Wholeness and Sacrifice

 

Also see:

   MyJewishLearning.com "Ceremonies for Newborns" page
   The "Babies & Children" page on RitualWell.org

 

Bar/Bat Mitzvah

You’re Invited to a Bar/Bat Mitzvah

The B'nei Mitzvah Covenant

Also see:

   MyJewishLearning.com "Bar/Bat Mitzvah" page
   The "Adolescence" page on RitualWell.org

 

For Parents & Grandparents

Shefa Jewish Parenting Page

Jewish Adoption

Blessing Children on Shabbat or Holidays

Raising Jewish Children

What Parents Owe Their Children

A College Graduation Ritual (Koach)
Jewish Grandparenting
 

Healing and Ilness

Visiting the Sick

Bikkur Cholim Handbook: "Give me your hand"

 

Death and Mourning

Preparing the Dead for Life's Final Passage

Death and Mourning Customs

A Guide for the Bereaved and the Comforters

Meal of Consolation

Also See

   The MyJewishLearning.com "Death and Mourning" Page

   Resources for "Death and Mourning" from Ritualwell.org

 

CJLS Halachic Teshuvot

Sections below include: Interpersonal Relationships, Homosexuality, Abortion, Marriage and Fertility, Divorce, Visting the Sick and Medicine, Responding to Death and Mourning, Pidyon HaBen and Circumcision, Conversion, Niddah and MikvehNote: All CJLS Teshuvot can be viewed online at http://www.rabbinicalassembly.org/law/teshuvot_public.html.

 

Interpersonal Relations
 
Marriage and Fertility
Divorce
Visiting the Sick and Medicine
Responding to a Death and Mourning
Circumcision and Pidyon HaBen
 Conversion
Niddah and Mikveh

 

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