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Babies and Children The birth of a baby is one of the happiest events we can celebrate. Here are some "announcements" in the form of bookmarks made from set 02012 New Baby.
On the first Shabbat, Monday, or Thursday after the birth of a daughter, the baby is given her Hebrew name by her father and mother at the synagogue during the Torah reading. On the eighth day, a Jewish boy is welcomed into the covenant, or brit, between G-d and the Jews. First-born Israelites are "bought back" on their thirty-first day through the pidyon ha-ben, or redemption, ceremony. "And G-d said unto Abraham: ... thou shalt keep My covenant,.... he that is eight days old shall be circumcised,... every male throughout your generations." (Gen. 17) The brit is performed on the child's eighth day, even Shabbat or Yom Kippur, unless the child was delivered by caesarean section. In the old days, a cedar was planted upon the birth of a boy, and a pine upon the birth of a girl. When a couple married, their trees were cut down to form their chuppah, or marriage canopy. In the United States, children are often given two secular names and two Hebrew names. A child may be named after a beloved ancestor, or given a Hebrew name that the parents like. A recent custom in the United States is to display balloons outside the home of a new baby, or to rent a painted stork to put in the front yard to announce the baby's name and birthdate. |
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