This informative, instructive, and lighthearted book helps prepare preteens to spiritually ready themselves for bar/bat mitzvah, combining Torah, folklore, history, theology, and liturgy in a language that kids can understand.
Expanded and revised, this book explores the spiritual values in American Jewry's most misunderstood ceremony, the bar or bat mitzvah. Joining explanations, instruction, and inspiration to help parent and child, Salkin offers new insights into bar and bat mitzvah's origins, purpose and future.
This practical guide gives families the how-to information they need--not only how to navigate the bar/bat mitvah process, but how to grow as a family through this coming-of-age experience.
Written from a thoroughly Jewish perspective, this book challenges people of every faith to reconcile the cares of work and the soul, critiquing our modern culture of workaholism and careerism, and offering practical suggestions for balancing professional and spiritual life.
More than 100,000 families have used this remarkable coming-of-age resource. In this new edition, Rabbi Salkin asks and answers questions that make parents and children more comfortable with the event and able to experience it more joyfully. How did bar and bat mitzvah originate? What is the lasting significance of the event? What are the ethics ...
This keepsake journal offers places to record memories of grandparents and parents; wishes from guests and friends; advice from the rabbi; the child's bar/bat mitzvah speech; and invitations, photos, and spiritual goals for the year ahead. Two-color text. Consumable.
This inspirational book features the insights of top scholars, professionals, politicians, authors, and community and religious leaders covering the entiredenominational spectrum of Jewish life in America today.
"Through the redemptive relationships that Jews have had with the gentile world, something truly does happen. Sacred molecules travel back and forth between the precious metals of our lives. That is why it is important that gentiles, no less than Jews, engage these worthy biblical characters. Their stories testify to the power and possibility of ...
Some people might be amused by the very notion of a "men's Torah commentary." After all, what else would you call Rashi, Ramban, Ibn Ezra, and the midrashim? While those commentaries were all written by men, they didn't deal with the issues with which many modern men struggleissues like relationships, sexuality, ambition, work and career, body ...
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