Yesh Tikva
A Jewish Fertility Community
Tikva Toolkits
Trusted, Jewish-centered fertility and family-building education.
Every Tikva Toolkit distills clear, compassionate information about fertility, reproductive health, and family-building options through a Jewish lens. Designed to be practical and easy to use, these guides offer evidence-informed knowledge, reflection prompts, and respectful language to help individuals, families, and communities navigate complex topics with confidence and care.
Facing Infertility
What does this Toolkit cover?
Infertility is so often measured by tests and treatments—but some of the hardest moments are the quiet, in-between waits. This compassionate guide offers grounding exercises, rituals, and reflections for the spaces that don’t fit neatly on a calendar: the two-week wait, a paused cycle, or the long stretch before your next decision. With gentle tools for nervous system regulation and self-compassion, you’ll find ways to feel less alone—and more anchored—no matter how long the waiting lasts.
What does this Toolkit cover?
Being referred from an OB/GYN to a reproductive endocrinologist (RE) can feel overwhelming, hopeful, and uncertain all at once. This clear, compassionate guide helps you understand why this transition happens, what to expect at your first RE appointment, and which treatment options may lie ahead. With practical information and emotional reassurance, you’ll feel more prepared to take this next step toward building your family—knowing you are not alone in this journey.
Holding the World
& Holding Yourself:
Navigating
Infertility Struggle During a Communal Crisis
What does this Toolkit cover?
This Tikva Toolkit explores the delicate balance of engaging with a world that often feels overwhelming while tending to your own heart in the midst of infertility. It offers practical strategies and Jewishly meaningful reflections for holding onto your center when local or global events weigh heavily. Inside, you’ll find exercises to identify your boundaries, rituals to ground you in moments of overwhelm, and gentle reminders that caring for yourself is not selfish but essential. This guide is designed to help you show up as much or as little as you can, while honoring both your inner world and the community around you.
Family Building Pathways and Beyond
Adoption
What does this Toolkit cover?
Considering adoption after infertility is a tender, life-shaping decision. This reflective guide helps you explore whether adoption could be the right path for your family—gently unpacking your expectations, beliefs, and hopes. With thought-provoking questions and space to process, you’ll find clarity about your readiness, your grief, and your dreams for parenthood. Take your time. This guide is here to honor your story and support your next steps with compassion and care.Â
Donor Conception
What does this Deep Dive Toolkit cover?
This expanded toolkit was created to help Jewish individuals and families better understand the complex and deeply personal path of donor conception. It offers clear explanations, practical considerations, and compassionate insights from professionals in the field, while centering the voices and needs of donor-conceived people. With sensitivity to Jewish values and communal life, this resource is designed to empower those navigating donor conception with knowledge, language, and support as they consider how to build and grow their families.
Childless Not by Choice
What does this Toolkit cover?
This toolkit offers language, practices, and rituals for navigating life after infertility when parenthood isn’t part of the path. Inside, you’ll find grounding exercises, reflection prompts, and gentle boundary ideas to help you honor grief, reclaim your whole self, and begin imagining a meaningful future.
Rituals and Holidays
High Holidays
What does this Toolkit cover?
This toolkit offers journal prompts to hold your questions alongside Jewish wisdom, and to help you enter the High Holidays feeling grounded in your real self, not a curated one. As with all of our resources, take what you want and leave what you don’t. Feel free to print and write on the journal
pages, or write in your own journal.
What does this Toolkit cover?
As we enter the month of Tishrei and the High Holiday season, this toolkit offers gentle language, boundary-setting tips, journaling prompts, and reflection questions. This toolkit also has a companion toolkit to share with your loved ones which you can find here.
Mother's Day
What does this Toolkit cover?
Mother’s Day can feel like the hardest day of the year when you’re living with infertility. This thoughtful guide offers grounding practices, boundary-setting phrases, and self-compassion tools to help you navigate six of the most painful Mother’s Day experiences. Whether you feel invisible, overwhelmed, or caught between gratitude and grief, these gentle strategies will help you protect your heart and honor your longing. You deserve support, dignity, and care—especially today.
For Supporters and Community
For All Loved Ones
What does this Toolkit cover?
This toolkit offers practical tools and gentle guidance to help you show up for loved ones facing infertility during this sacred season. With reflection prompts, do’s and don’ts, and supportive language, this guide equips you to bring sensitivity and compassion into holiday gatherings—so your presence becomes a source of comfort, not pressure.
What does this Toolkit cover?
Facing the High Holidays while someone you love is navigating infertility can feel tender, uncertain, and even overwhelming. This gentle, practical resource was created to help you reach out before the holiday season begins, offering presence, compassion, and respect when it matters most. Inside, you’ll find simple prompts for what to say (and what to avoid), tips for sending thoughtful notes or making supportive calls ahead of time, and reminders about authentic kindness, pacing, and boundaries. Whether you’re a sibling, friend, rabbi, or colleague, this guide will help you communicate care in ways that truly matter—before the season is underway.
For Grandparents-in-Waiting (Parents of Those with Infertility)
What does this Toolkit cover?
Watching your child face infertility can leave you feeling heartbroken and helpless. This gentle, practical guide is designed especially for grandparents-in-waiting, offering compassionate advice and concrete tools to show up with love and respect. Inside, you’ll find ideas for what to say (and what not to), ways to honor boundaries, and small acts of care that can bring comfort. Your presence matters. Let this guide help you be the steady, supportive parent your child needs now more than ever.
What does this Toolkit cover?
Special days meant for joy can feel especially tender when your child is facing infertility. This compassionate guide offers emotional tools, boundary-setting phrases, and gentle rituals to help grandparents-in-waiting navigate Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, and other family-centered days meant for joy. With supportive language and Jewish wisdom, you’ll learn how to honor your own grief, protect your child’s privacy, and hold space for both hope and heartbreak. You are allowed to care for your own heart too, and this guide will show you the way.
For Doctors and Other Medical Professionals
What does this Toolkit cover?
Graduating from the fertility clinic is an amazing milestone for a patient and it can also come with complex emotions. The toolkit offers REIs and clinic staff practical guidance for facilitating a sensitive, informed, and empowering graduation process. With tips on emotional support, communication, and continuity of care, it equips clinicians to approach this transition with compassion, helping patients feel seen, supported, and prepared for the next stage of pregnancy after infertility.
Professionals and Clergy
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