Birth

Hope (Hadassah) Pracht, 6/29/2005

Jewish women - come now and gather under a new banner, a Naming Ceremony that will no longer "play second fiddle" to the entrance rite of Jewish men. This ceremony which I will elaborate on further by Scriptural bases, midrash and liturgy, is called "The Covenant of the Heart for Jewish Women". We women can realize that we were not home doing dishes and laundry at Sinai, we were there with the men at the foot of the mountain, and we still are , as Jewish feminine writers have said. From this realization, we women can create new liturgy and revivify old practices - as I show below.

David F. Waskow and Ketura Persellin, 2/4/2004

Please download "Blessed is She Who Comes: A Birth-Covenant Ceremony for Girls" in PDF form via the link below.