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Sanctifying Intimate Relationships

Intimate relationships bring two people together in a unique emotional and physical connection. This is something to celebrate, whether through the public festivity of a wedding, or in the private reflection of immersion in the mikveh. Sanctifying our intimate relationships elevates these unions and gives them a context of meaning and joy.

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Acquiring Equality

A thoughtful article about how two modern brides reconciled tradition and feminism in their weddings [more]

Found In: Weddings & Commitment Ceremonies

Tags: kiddushin

Tischen (Groom's and Bride's Tables)

A brief description of this ritual, traditionally only practiced for the groom, but now embraced by both members of the couple, separately or together [more]

Found In: Weddings & Commitment Ceremonies

Tags: kabbalat panim, tisch

Bedecken (Veiling the Bride)

A brief description of this ritual and ways to make it more egalitarian [more]

Found In: Weddings & Commitment Ceremonies

Tags: bedecken

Bedecken (Noticing Each Other)

A mutual bedecken ceremony in which the groom and bride adorn one another with kippot and flowers [more]

Found In: Weddings & Commitment Ceremonies

Tags: bedecken

Prayers for a Bedecken Ceremony

A ritual involving both the couple and their parents or other family members [more]

Found In: Weddings & Commitment Ceremonies

Tags: bedecken

"Bedecken"

A mother's observation of the bride [more]

Found In: Weddings & Commitment Ceremonies

Tags: bedecken

Healing Well

A healing prayer to be said when immersing in the mikveh [more]

Found In: Mikveh for Monthly Use: Niddah, Healing & Hard Times

Tags: mikveh

Rising from the Ritual Bath

An article explaining the traditional uses of mikveh and modern perspectives on it, including a review of contemporary literature on the subject [more]

Found In: Mikveh for Monthly Use: Niddah

Tags: mikveh

Techine Prior to Immersion in the Mikveh

A prayer, fashioned after traditional women's prayers, techinot, to be said prior to immersion in the mikveh [more]

Found In: Mikveh for Monthly Use: Niddah

Tags: mikveh, tekhine

Kavanah for Mikveh

A meditation for the mikveh invoking God's healing presence [more]

Found In: Conversion, Mikveh for Monthly Use: Niddah

Tags: mikveh