Celebrate your second (or perhaps your first) Bar/Bat Mitzvah

Pictured: Rabbie Elaine S. Zecher with Sue Cahners, Walter Cahners, Judy Chernoff, Ruth Dangel, Ruth Gordon,
Sydney Kaplan, Jane Price Prager, Dorsey Schulman, Joseph Steinberg, Bentsion Mankovskiy at the September 2011 Service.

ATTENTION 70 +13 = 83 YEARS OLD AND BETTER
It's not too late...
To add your name or to help celebrate!

Friday, May 18
5:45 p.m. Qabbalat Shabbat Service

The Psalmist said, "the measure of our life is seventy years..." (90:10) Therefore, Jewish tradition teaches that every seventy years we get to start the cycle of life over.  And as a result, by eighty-three years, you can once again celebrate the milestone of Bar/Bat Mitzvah!  Make 2012 the year that you celebrate your second (or perhaps, your first) Bar/Bat Mitzvah!   This special life cycle celebration will take place at the

At Temple Israel, we want to help you celebrate in a significant way by offering anyone who will be eighty-three or older in 2012 a special invitation to become a Bar/Bat Mitzvah during this year.  You need not learn how to chant Torah verses or even write a speech.  To become a Bar/Bat Mitzvah, you need to be able to chant the blessings before and after the Torah reading.  This is what qualifies you as a Bar/Bat Mitzvah.  As a group, you will chant the blessings.  A member of the clergy will read from the Torah and offer you a special blessing.  And then as a community, we will sing Mazel Tov and declare you Bar/Bat Mitzvah! 

In September 2011, eleven members celebrated their second Bar/Bat Mitzvah.  On May 18, Robert Abrams, Jacqueline Feinberg, Mona Freeman, Robert Hoffman, Arthur Goldberg, Paul Lipsitt, Susan Richman and Marcia Zonis will become B'nai Mitzvah.  Your next chance will be Friday, September 21.  But don't wait until fall - join us now. It is not too late to add your name!

If you have questions, wish to RSVP or need to obtain a CD of the blessings,
please contact Laurena Rosenberg at 617-566-3960 x118.