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    How to Reclaim the Spiritual Meaning of Your Child's Bar or Bat Mitzvah
    PMA Best Religion Book of the Year!<br />The inspiring guide to spiritual celebration used in hundreds of congregations - Reform, Conservative, Reconstructionist - revised and expanded!''''Parents and their children acutely feel the social pressures that surround bar and bat mitzvah. But they want to feel the spiritual promise of the event, the pull of the divine, and the knowledge that they are participating in an event that has meaning both in the ancient past and in the very immediate present. They want to know that the steep incline before them is their family's own version of Sinai, the summit where, in every generation, Jews meet God, individually and as a people. They want to know that bar and bat mitzvah can be a path to that summit. And they want to know how to get there. . . . This book can be their guide.''''<br /> - from ''''Why This Book Was Born''''Helps people find core spiritual values in American Jewry's most misunderstood ceremony - bar and bat mitzvah. In a joining of explanation, instruction and inspiration, Rabbi Salkin helps both parent and child truly be there when the moment of Sinai is recreated in their lives.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 of celebration? What specific things can you do to reclaim the spiritual meaning of the event? How to further develop spirituality? What spiritual values can parents and young people build together?To help guide friends and family who are not Jewish through this important Jewish life cycle event, Rabbi Salkin provides a brief, welcoming overview: ''What Non - Jews Should Know About the Bar and Bat Mitzvah Service.''
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    Book Author
    Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin, Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso and Rabbi William H. Lebeau
    Genre Jewish , Religion & Beliefs
    Binding
    PERFECT BINDING (PAPERBACK)
    Format
    Large Print 16 Pt Edition (Standard Large Print)
    ISBN
    9781459680395
    Publisher
    Jewish Lights Publishing
    Age Range
    General
    Approximate delivery

    Up to 20 business days (?)

    Publication Date
    03-Jun-2014

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