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Bar & Bat Mitzvah
Entering Adulthood
What is the deeper significance behind the Jewish adolescent rite of passage? Insights... Resources and tools... Special milestones.
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Entering Adulthood - the Bar and Bat Mitzvah
By Aron Moss
How can a 12 or 13 year old be considered an adult? What suddenly happens at age 12/13?
Lifecycles » Bar & Bat Mitzvah » Insights » Entering Adulthood - the Bar and Bat Mitzvah
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Bar/Bat Mitzvah Date Calculator
Wondering what day you are going to be Bar/Bat Mitzvah or have you forgotten the exact day that you became Bar or Bat Mitzvah? Use our Bar/Bat Mitzvah date finder to discover it.
Jewish Calendar » Bar/Bat Mitzvah Date Calculator
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I Need Help with my Daughter's Bat Mitzvah Speech...
By Chana Weisberg
Unlike the common misconception that a bar or bat mitzvah signifies an end, or the graduation upon the successful completion of a bar or bat mitzvah lesson regimen, in truth it symbolizes a new beginning...
Lifecycles » Bar & Bat Mitzvah » Insights » I Need Help with my Daughter's Bat Mitzvah Speech...
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You Call Yourself A Man?
By Elisha Greenbaum
Sometimes I wonder at the puny specimens passing themselves off as Bar Mitzvah boys. How, by any stretch of the imagination, can they be described as having reached adulthood?
Parshah » Bereishit - Genesis » Vayeira » Parshah Columnists » Parshah Musings » You Call Yourself A Man?
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Can a Bar/Bat Mitzvah be postponed or advanced?
By Chani Benjaminson
Question: My son is turning thirteen in January of next year. My daughter will become twelve two months later. We would like to have a joint celebration for their bar and bat mitzvah. Can either my son's bar mitzvah be delayed, or can my daughter's bat ...
Ask the Rabbi » Latest Questions » The Details » Can a Bar/Bat Mitzvah be postponed or advanced?
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The Exodus from Immaturity
Kabbalah explains how each person's personal development is a kind of Exodus.
From Rabbi Yitzchak Luria
Kabbalah explains how each person's personal development is a kind of Exodus.
Kabbalah Online » Weekly Torah » Archives » Shemot - Exodus » Shemot » The Holy Ari » The Exodus from Immaturity
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An Unreasonable Source
Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
Why would an irrational, irresponsible and legally questionable act serve as the precedent by which to measure reasonability and legal responsibility?
Parshah » Bereishit - Genesis » Vayishlach » Chassidic Masters » An Unreasonable Source
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Da'at
The Knowing I
By Tzvi Freeman
Why do we become a bar mitzvah at adolescence? Because something dramatic happens to our minds at this time: A sort of awakening, a consciousness, a realization that "I exist"
Spirituality » Short Insights » By Tzvi Freeman » Da'at
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Get a Life!
By Yanki Tauber
"You get a comfortable salary, full health benefits, free day care and spa privileges, 31 days annual paid vacation. You have no duties and responsibilities -- you don't even have to come to work." Would you want this job?
Spirituality » Short Insights » By Yanki Tauber » Get a Life!
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