Whatever you do, wherever you do it, and whatever you think about bar and bat mitzvah, here are seven things to consider in order to help make sure that the event you get is the one you really want.
1. Reflect on what the words mean.
2. Remember that it's all about you.
3. Be able to explain why you are there.
4. Know that the party matters.
5. Think about the relationship between giving and receiving.
6. Consider the purpose of your learning.
7. What's next?
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1. Be good and smile for the pictures.
2. Dont worry if you mess up it will all be on tape.
Tomorrow you're back in 7th grade.
The tefillin is worn throughout the morning service from the Birachat HaShachar to the conclusion of the Shacharit service. And so the Bar Mitzvah boy puts on his phylacteries at the beginning of the service. And the tefillin is worn every weekday morning except on certain occasions (holidays). The Hear O Israel prayer is recited daily. The piece de resistance for the Bar Mitzvah boy is reciting that prayer for the first time wearing tefillin.
I have forgotten an awful lot about this having strayed away from observance some years ago.
Do they still make fountain pens?
One of my friends runs a pen shop and repairs old fountain pens as well as selling new ones and old.
all my friends learned was that they could amass a large amount of money from relatives if they went through all the trouble of learning hebrew and reading the torah and what not....
I love that. Outstanding.
Bat mitzvah is less than half a century old and is an attempt to create equality between the sexes which will never happen in orthodox and ultraorthodox sects since females who do have some small power are in thrall to their husbands who can make their lives miserable if they so choose but no Jewish laws allow the female to cause as much harm to males. Thus we see why patriarchy is inherently less than fair.
We have may a shulchan aruch but it we do the woman will do the scut work necessary to get it that way and clean it afterwards. (Small joke for Hebrew speakers.)
The Talmud insists that the wife is due equality from her husband but in real life, men, AKA Rabbis. steer actions to favor themselves and keep women subservient. Men are urged to become educated, women are expected to be uneducated in any fashion other than as a housewife and mother.
The more liberal sects have dropped the ancient notions of a wife being treated as the husband's property. These days women are afforded opportunities to be independent and self sustaining which can happen with a good education.
Look at Chabad as an example of jewish orthodoxy. Some of the wives have a college education and still spend a life of child bearing and home keeping because that is what the sect requires. Most of the males work at recruiting new members and training children in staying away from secular life but they rarely have jobs which earn a salary. They survive on charity.
I'm Jewish...and I'm an atheist. I still attend synagogue services sometimes and celebrate my Hebrew heritage. You have no idea of how I can conceive of "YHWH" and I probably couldn't explain it to you. So why does it matter to you?
However, this was in LA. Maybe the case is different in less ridiculous areas.