Reclaiming Bar/Bat Mitzvah : as a spiritual rite of passage

This ground-breaking guide provides the tools and understanding you need to create a conscious Bar/Bat Mitzvah experience infused with spirituality and meaning. The original purpose of this important rite of passage is carefully reclaimed: Ensuring a healthy Jewish lens for living is conveyed to each student; a lens that supports love of life and respect for life. The building blocks of a mitzvah-centered life are taught experientially. Step-by-step guides and riveting true stories help all involved to feel personally "touched by Torah" by weaving student and family feelings, needs, interests, skills and talents into the preparation process, ritual and celebration. This innovative approach reduces stress and cultivates loving connections to family, friends, community and heritage.… (more)