Everyday Holiness. Finding the holy in the everyday helps ensure that we don't take life for granted.

When we pause to say a blessing, we draw attention to life’s ordinary moments, elevate them, and imbue them with meaning. Ritual serves the same purpose. Just as saying a blessing before eating helps us appreciate the gift of food and the labor behind it, so too, a ritual for the first day of school makes us grateful for health, growth and the comfort of seasonal cycles. We can make the everyday holy with a ritual as simple as tucking a child into bed each night with a story and a kiss. We can also create more elaborate rituals to mark transitions such as moving into a new home, starting or ending a job, or making changes in personal relationships. Jewish rituals old and new help us sanctify our precious and singular lives.