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A Welcoming Ritual

Shared by Rabbis Michal Woll and Louis Rieser | Ritual Component

Awakening a child's senses by anointing with oil and sharing inspirational verses [more]

Found In: Covenant & Naming Rituals

Tags: covenant, welcoming

Simkhat Bat - A Welcoming Ceremony For a New Daughter

Shared by Rabbi James Greene | Complete Ceremony

Invoking the prophetess Devorah and symbolically wrapping tzitzit to welcome a baby girl [more]

Found In: Covenant & Naming Rituals

Tags: covenant, Debbie Friedman, mi sheberakh, shehekheyanu , tzitzit, welcoming

Seven Blessings

By Lori Lefkovitz and Rabbi Lenny Gordon | Ritual Component

Recalls the concept of the Sheva Brachot which follow a wedding ceremony [more]

Found In: Covenant & Naming Rituals

Tags: covenant, shehekheyanu , yotzer

Excerpted from Seder Brit Eloheha

By Rabbi Jeremy Schwartz | Ritual Component

Excerpt from an original babynaming ceremony in which the baby is welcomed into the covenant by perfuming her ears with myrtle. [more]

Found In: Covenant & Naming Rituals

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Mikveh

Ritual Component

Some families immerse the newborn in a small mikveh, symbolic of the covenant. [more]

Found In: Covenant & Naming Rituals

Tags: covenant, mikveh

A Ner Nishamah

By Lori Lefkovitz and Rabbi Lenny Gordon | Ritual Component

Lighting a candle, symbolic of the new soul born into the world. Can also be used like a yahrzeit candle to recall the departed soul for whom the baby is named. Also a covenantal symbol. [more]

Found In: Covenant & Naming Rituals

Tags: candle lighting, covenant

Tallit

Ritual Component

Some couples wrap the baby in a tallit, perhaps the one used as their chuppah, as a symbol of covenant. Others do so as a symbol of welcome [more]

Found In: Covenant & Naming Rituals

Tags: covenant, tallit

Traditional Blessing for Entering the Baby into the Covenant

Prayer

With Hebrew, a traditional blessing [more]

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Anointing with Breast Milk

By Alexandra Volin Avelin | Ritual Component

Excerpted from an original babynaming ceremony in which the baby is welcomed into the covenant by anointing her with breast milk. [more]

Found In: Covenant & Naming Rituals

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Deuteronomy 29:9-13

Reading

God incorporates all future generations into the covenant at Mt. Sinai. [more]

Found In: Covenant & Naming Rituals

Tags: covenant