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Lexi B. Sent on 10/04/2021Working With Cantor Re’ut Ben-Zeev
When my husband and I began the journey of searching for our cantor, we were looking for someone who would take a very specific vision we had, and bring it to life. When we found Cantor Re’ut, she executed our vision, nothing short of perfection. We had a complicated vision where we wanted to have our Ketubah service on Friday evening and our ceremony service on Saturday, all at a destination wedding. Without hesitation, Re’ut stepped in and excitedly joined our journey and made our dream wedding come true. Further, she never pushed Judaism on us, but rather helped us understand the beauty of incorporating different Jewish traditions and prayers into our lives or ceremony. As two people that had lost their connection with Judaism with age, she inspired us to reconnect with our religion and heritage. Her patience and empathy as a teacher were genuine, and she found ways to highlight how Judaism already fit into our lives and ceremony, rather than making us fit it in. Her exquisite singing voice, attention to detail, beautiful articulation of our love story, several pre-marital meetings where she learned about us as partners and designed our ceremonies with us, devotion to include all of the important elements we requested, and her preparedness only scratched the surface.
We met Re’ut in a virtual setting and had all of our prior meetings virtually as well. When we were able to finally meet in person, it was as if we were seeing a family member for the first time in a long time. This is how close we grew to Cantor Re’ut. She has a beautiful way of making your story special, sacred, and unique. Simply put, Re’ut is thoughtful, flexible, and deeply caring in her approach when working with a couple. I’ve never worked with someone who is so lovingly committed to their work and where their passion is so evidently palpable. Not only did Re’ut deliver a dream wedding weekend for us where she embraced us as a couple, she also celebrated with our families and filled our wedding weekend with positivity, calm, joy, and love. I could not recommend Re’ut enough. She is a gem and every couple would be honored to work with her. We have deep gratitude for the work, effort, and commitment she poured into our love story. -
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Melissa B. Sent on 10/25/2023
Highly recommend!
Re’ut is a wonderful, lovely human and a great wedding officiant. When we hired an officiant, we thought they would just show up, marry us, and go home. This was not the case with Re’ut. She spent hours with us on Zoom, explaining Jewish wedding traditions to my non-Jewish fiancé, providing context, and guiding us through the process of customizing a ceremony that really felt like us. She was communicative, prompt, prepared, chanted beautifully, and was a key component of our wedding feeling as special as it did. Thank you, Re’ut! -
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Stephanie S. Sent on 08/17/2023Look no further! Cantor Re'ut is exceptional
We instantly felt connected when we met Cantor Re'ut. She is warm, spiritual, and professional. We knew right away that we wanted her to marry us. Cantor Re'ut really takes the time to get to know you as a couple and building a relationship is easy with her! When it came down to planning the ceremony; she was an exceptional sounding board and guide. She helped us make decisions about how we wanted our ceremony to flow, what we wanted to include, and what was important to us. We also had the pleasure of grabbing some coffee with her by Lincoln Center right before our wedding just to spend some quality time before the big day! She was prompt, commanded the room during Ketubah signing and ceremony, and has a very warm and spiritual way of leading a congregation or large group. We were so impressed with her and we would recommend her to anyone in a heartbeat! In numbers, she is an 11 out of 10! You just found your officiant!Cantor Reut Ben-Zeev's reply:
Thank you! My heart is full! It was a privilege to be part of your process into marriage. Congratulations!!! Infinite blessings! -
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Bobby W. Sent on 06/20/2023You have found your Cantor
We had the absolute pleasure of being married by Cantor Re’ut and we couldn’t imagine being married by anyone else in the world. It was the perfect experience. Cantor Re’ut is fun and passionate and really takes the time to get to know the Bride & Groom. She understood exactly what we were looking for and built out a service that married tradition with modernity in a way that suited us perfectly. Cantor Re’ut is personable, quick to communicate, and did I mention the beautiful voice??? Would strongly recommend to anyone. Thank you Cantor, we love you!!! -
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Eric G. Sent on 06/18/2024Everything we could have hoped for...and more.
Our search for a cantor/rabbi was very specific. I am a professional wedding planner who was planning my own wedding. I also happen to be a gay, non-Jewish, ex-Broadway performer who was marrying a Jewish man with solid ties to the cultural traditions of his Jewish heritage. There were many boxes to tick in our search for the right officiant for us, but we both wholeheartedly agree that we found everything we could have hoped for and more...in Re’ut Ben-Zeev.
I have always been passionately moved by Jewish tradition while not particularly religious, and my husband brought very strong visions of what he wanted in our ceremony that were familiar to him. Re’ut took us carefully into her guiding arms and found what traditions spoke to us (and, more importantly, “why” they did). She helped craft a deeply personal ceremony firmly rooted in those traditions that reflected us as individuals and as a couple. She listened, gave insight, offered wonderful suggestions on how to modernize or not, and repeatedly found wonderful possibilities that culminated in a beautifully balanced, perfect ceremony that was uniquely ours. She helped us look at traditions in a new light and was always mindful of making every component feel accessible and inclusive to me and our non-Jewish guests. Re’ut took such thoughtful care in getting to know each of us that by the time we stood before her under our chuppah, we felt we were in the comforting presence of a cherished friend. Our families and friends unanimously sang her praises, but none more so than us. We will be forever grateful. Thank you, Re’ut. -
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Danielle M. Sent on 11/22/2022
Wonderful!
cantor Re'Ut was wonderful to work with! She made shaping our ceremony so easy and seamless. It was such a fun process getting to explore the reasons we love each other and she made it very enjoyable. When you have so many stressful things happening during wedding planning you want someone who will keep you calm and make things easy for you - she provided exactly that! Could not recommend her more.Cantor Reut Ben-Zeev's reply:
My heart is full! I’m so glad. Wishing you many continued blessings on your life’s and love’s journey! -
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Deanna Y. Sent on 09/20/2022
The Best Part of Our Wedding
It has been a month since our wedding day, and people are still reaching out to us to let us know that we had the most beautiful wedding ceremony they have ever seen- all thanks to Cantor Reut. She made sure to engage our guests throughout the entire ceremony, brought in aspects of traditional Jewish customs, and seamlessly made our interfaith ceremony feel custom-designed for us. She spoke eloquently of our journies, captured our dedication to each other, and tied our paths to the present moment. Further, she explained Jewish customs to the guests to ensure that everyone could feel equally present on our wedding day and managed to tie in some humor to keep the ceremony light-hearted. Finally, while maintaining an incredibly professional demeanor, Cantor Reut's warm and robust energy never failed to shine in this process.Cantor Reut Ben-Zeev's reply:
Thank you very much! I’m so glad and feel privileged to be part of your special day and milestone! Mazel Tov - Felicidades ! -
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Julie E. Sent on 08/25/2022Amazing!
We truly cannot say enough about Cantor Reut. She truly blew us away. We spent multiple sessions with Reut before our wedding that were so so meaningful and helped us better connect with each other. Because of those, on our wedding day, we could just feel the connection between her and us so strongly and that was reflected throughout our whole ceremony -- she really knew us. She had the background and context of the religious teachings and yet tailored the whole ceremony and Ketubah signing to a version that felt modern and authentic to us. Her spirituality and profound wisdom, as well as her depth of knowledge of and traditional rituals was a perfect blend. We cannot truly recommend Reut enough! -
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Phoebe Sent on 01/07/2023
Lovely service
Re’ut was wonderful! She met with us a few times before the wedding, and really worked with us to design the Chinese-/Jewish-American wedding of our dreams. She was thoughtful and patient with us, and helped us find our way through the traditions to find what really mattered — the heart of our family. We couldn’t be happier with all that she did!Cantor Reut Ben-Zeev's reply:
I’m so glad, Phoebe! Thank you! It was a joy and a privilege getting to know you and exploring and discovering with you. Every blessing! -
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Rachel L. Sent on 06/05/2022Special ceremony
Words cannot describe how Reut made our ceremony and the entire wedding process so special. I had one interview with one person and hired her on the spot. I didn’t need to look any further. She is so calm, thoughtful, nice and has the best singing voice. She went above and beyond reviewing our vows with us individually. We love her and hope we can work together on other special occasions soon. -
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Matthew S. Sent on 12/31/2021Meaningful and Unique Officiant
Cantor Reut made our wedding incredibly special. From the start, she made numerous efforts to get to know us as a couple and to learn about our relationship. She worked with us over a year to customize the ceremony for us ( we are mixed-faith and LGBT). During the process, she also met our families to explain the elements of the ceremony to them. The Cantor also designed with our input a pre-ceremony for the family only that involved a Havdalah service as well as the signing of the Katubah. We could not recommend the Cantor enough - so many friends after the ceremony asked us for her information when it comes time for their weddings. Reut made our ceremony feel so unique and personal that it truly made our wedding day. -
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Maria K. Sent on 08/29/2021Could not have asked for more!
Cantor Reut Ben-Zeev is an incredibly special person. The ceremony that she put together for our wedding was more than we could have asked for. We started our journey by having a few meetings where we all learned about each other. Cantor Reut had us fill out a questionnaire about each other which was amazing. It not only helped her when it came to our ceremony, but it really put us on the same page for what we were looking out of life, marriage, and the wedding.
We are an interfaith couple and the best thing that Cantor Reut did for us was help us understand that our special day can represent us and our new traditions. She helped us include the things that mattered and exclude the thing that didnt make sense. She also showed us that we could have a custom Ketubah, that was special to us (my husband is not jewish so it was especially meaningful for him).
Cantor Reut is amazing. She listened to us, educated us, helped us navigate the whole process, and made the day of so incredibly special. Not only was the ceremony that she created beautiful for us as a couple, but I had several guests who specifically commented on how unique and lovely our ceremony was. A true representation of us!
I would recommend Cantor Reut to all couples! Especially those looking for a really personal touch. -
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Daniel D. Sent on 08/01/2021Meaningful Journey to an Incredibly, Special, Ceremony! We love Re'ut!!
From the first time we spoke with Re'ut, we knew she was the right fit for us. She was thoughtful, warm, positive, and full of love and enthusiasm. She was incredibly open to our ideas for the wedding, and even helped us unearth new components of the ceremony. Every time we mentioned a seed of an idea, she helped us find a way to develop it and make it a reality.
The time we spent with Re'ut felt like having a warm cup of coffee with a friend - we shared our relationship highlights while Re'ut listened. My husband and I often hesitate to think introspectively, but Re'ut helped us reflect on our relationship in such an easy and enjoyable way. She helped us find meaning in this process which helped us create a truly personal and unique ceremony. We were able to verbalize why we were gathering our friends and family to celebrate our marriage. We were simultaneously creating a wedding ceremony and strengthening our bond as a couple.
She created a safe space for us to connect with Judaism and the people who are closest to us (our friends and family). As a team, the three of us put together a ceremony that we were incredibly proud of. Re'ut explained the traditional Jewish components of the ceremony and helped turn them into something even more personal. For example, we called our parents up to say the Blessing of the Children, wrapping us in my husband’s tallit from his Bar Mitzvah. We had seven of our best friends surround us in a circle and recite a blessing they had each written for the Seven Blessings. Re'ut included the female pronoun for hashem and pronounced us man and wife by the power vested in her by Miriam and Moses, because she knew it was important to us to have female representation in our ceremony.
We received such glowing feedback about our ceremony, people said it was unique and truly showcased our love for one another. Re'ut gave us the tools to build a ceremony that was genuinely us, and we are so grateful. If you are a couple with Jewish roots and a desire for spirituality, music and joy, you will be in amazing hands with Re'ut!! -
Briana W. Sent on 09/12/2021
Meaningful and Warm
Beautiful. Spiritual. Modern. Light. Cantor Re’ut captured the essence of our relationship so beautifully. Our guests felt like they were a part of our love story. We couldn’t have asked for a more perfect ceremony that radiated with warmth, family, friendship, and love. -
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