Birth to Bushey - Lifecycle Events
Baby naming and blessing
Baby Naming
Girls
It is customary to name a baby girl in the synagogue during the leining – Reading of the Torah. The father is called up and the baby named on the bimah. This can take place on Monday or Thursday mornings or on Shabbat morning.
Boys
Boys are normally named during the circumcision ceremony.
Naming the baby after someone…
Ashkenazi tradition is to name after deceased relative…
Sephardi tradition is to name after living relatives…
Please inform the shul office about the birth of your new baby with its full English and Hebrew names and date of birth.
A Mazal Tov will appear on the Shabbat leaflet and in the next Community magazine and you will then be invited to participate in the next shul Baby Blessing ceremony.
Baby blessing
Pinner Shul holds a baby blessing ceremony twice a year, on Shavuot and Succot, for those babies born in that year.
The ceremony takes place immediately after Adon Olam, at the end of the Yom Tov service.
Parents are invited to bring their baby and any siblings onto the Bimah in the centre of the shul where the ceremony will take place, which you will be able to follow from a printed order of service sheet. We begin with the singing of Psalm 121, after which the we recite a short prayer of thanksgiving for women following childbirth. We conclude the ceremony with the traditional blessings to children and the presentation to you of a personalised certificate and a gift. The congregation will then sing Hatikvah before you and the other families make your way down from the Bimah.
If you are unable to attend on the first occasion you will have a second opportunity in six months time.
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