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Resources - Rituals & Practices

OHALAH Members have chosen to freely share these resources. Please credit authors and sources.
Birchat Hachama
  • Birkat Ha-Chamah, Marcia Prager; a liturgy for the once-every-28-years blessing of the sun, created 2009
Bnei Mitzvah
  • Make Your Own Bar/Bat Mitzvah: A Personal Approach to Creating a Meaningful Rite of Passage, a book by Rabbi Goldie Milgram 
Counting the Omer
  • Counting the Omer: A Kabbalistic Meditation Guide, Min Kantrowitz; a mystical approach to counting the omer
Eichah for Tisha B'Av
  • Eichah, adapted by Rabbi Sue Mauer Morningstar 
​Funerals and Memorials
  • Shiva Service, Dennis Beck-Berman; a shiva service for Elinor Bloom Marshall, Dec. 10, 2010
  • Remembering Rachel Luzatto-Morpurgo, Leah NovickPosted; remembering Rachel Luzzatto, called “the Queen of the Hebrew Versifiers” was born in Trieste, Italy on the eighth day of Pesach 1790 and died on the seventh of Elul in 1871.
Getin-Divorce 
  • A Renewal Ritual of Divorce to Supplement a Traditional Gett, Rabbi Pamela Frydman Baugh
  • Traditional Gittin in a Pluralistic Post Denominational Setting, Leana Moritt; Creative rituals around a traditional get, maintaining hallachic status, counterbalancing the passive role of women, and speaking to the psychological/emotional dynamics.
  • Contemporary Ritual of Release (Get), Eli Cohen, Paula Marcus, Lori Klein; first published in Kerem, Creative Explorations in Judaism
  • Gittin’ The Release You Need, Goldie Milgram; Reb Zalman z”l initially implored me to obtain a halahic divorce. It was one of my students who helped me get clear on the matter for myself. “Wait a minute Reb Goldie, are you saying that you would disenfranchise the personhood of women by having only observant men sign your very own Jewish divorce decree? I came to study with you because I believe in a gender equal Judaism. Are you saying that you don’t?​
Havdalah
  • CHAI CEREMONY, Rabbi Julie Hilton Danaan
Menses and Menopause
  • Menstruation and Rosh Chodesh, Sue Morningstar; Vort/d’var on menstruation and Rosh Chodesh.
Miscarriage
  • Through: A short collection of miscarriage poems, Rachel Barenblat; a short collection of miscarriage poems, available as a podcast, free download, or at-cost chapbook
Purim Rituals
  • A Non-political Purim Shpil, Shira Danan; Purim Shpil by Shira Rachel Danan, daughter of Rabbi Julie Hilton Danan. Offered freely for your Purim enjoyment and use. Please credit the author, Shira Rachel Danan (https://www.shiradanan.com/)
  • Purim 4G UPDATED, Shira Danan; Purim Shpil by Shira Rachel Danan, daughter of Rabbi Julie Hilton Danan. Offered freely for your Purim enjoyment and use. This hilarious Purim Shpil classic has been updated to reflect new technology! Please credit the author, Shira Rachel Danan, comedy writer for Someecards’ Happy Place and The Loom, as well as The Onion, Mad Magazine other publications.
  • Shushan TV, Shira Danan; Purim shpil by Shira Danan, daughter of Rabbi Julie Hilton Danan. Offered freely for your Purim enjoyment. Please credit the author, Shira Rachel Danan, who writes for Happy Place (the Someecards Humor Blog) and The Onion, as well as the Bridge and Tunnel Sketch Group in NYC.
  • Reclaiming Purim, Ivan Ickovits; Reclaiming Purim as a robust and deep mystical practice for adults and not just a playful adventure for children.
  • Shushan Night Live!, Shira Danan; Purim shpil by Shira Danan, daughter of Rabbi Julie Hilton Danan. Offered freely for your Purim enjoyment. Please credit the author, who runs the happyplace.com website for someecards. 
  • Purim Goes to the Movies, Shira Danan; Purim shpil by Shira Danan, daughter of Rabbi Julie Hilton Danan. Offered freely for your Purim enjoyment. Please credit the author, who runs the happyplace.com website for someecards.
Yizkor
  • A Yiskor Poem Alternative, Simcha Raphael
  • Yiskor Meditation, Simcha Raphael; Between the world of the living and the world of the dead is a window and not a wall …​

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