{"product_id":"9780984804832","title":"Reclaiming Bar\/Bat Mitzvah: as a Spiritual Rite of Passage","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Excellent and useful.\"--Jewish Book Council\u003cbr\u003eProvides the tools and understanding necessary 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe building blocks of a mitzvah-centered life are taught through the methods of experiential and Jewish spiritual education. Step-by-step guides and riveting true stories help all involved to feel personally \"touched by Torah\"; through weaving student and family feelings, needs, interests, skills and talents into the preparation process, ritual and celebration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis innovative approach reduces stress and cultivates loving connections to family, friends, community and heritage. B'nai Mitzvah becomes a far more meaningful and memorable chapter of life as award-winning master teacher Rabbi Dr. Goldie Milgram inclusively leads every kind of family through this engaging, carefully researched and proven effective planning and preparation process.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Reclaiming Bar\/Bat Mitzvah as a Spiritual Rite of Passage\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is a most valuable book to learn about Judaism for a Bar\/Bat Mitzvah of any age!\u003cbr\u003e --Peninnah Schram, author, \u003ci\u003eJewish Stories One Generation Tells Another\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Solid, wise and inviting.\"\u003cbr\u003e --Rabbi Nancy Fuchs Kreimer, author, \u003ci\u003eParenting as a Spiritual Journey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book freed our family from the bar mitzvah machine that our Temple has turned into and helped us come up with a bar mitzvah that is relevant...It is full of wonderful ideas.\"\u003cbr\u003e--M. Shellster, Parent\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Helps us to bring heart and soul to our involvement in Jewish life.\" Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi: \u003ci\u003eDavenning: A Guide to Meaningful Jewish Prayer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Helps bar and bat mitzvah students enhance their autonomy, thinking, creative engagement, Jewish identity and authentic self esteem.\"\u003cbr\u003e --Ellen Weaver, psychotherapist, pastoral counselor, Bar\/Bat Mitzvah Educator\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I cherish this as a parent, educator, and impassioned adult bat mitzvah student. An invaluable tool to help transform this learning process into a joyous adventure.\"\u003cbr\u003e --Julia Indichova, author, \u003ci\u003eInconceivable\u003c\/i\u003e and director, Fertile Heart Parenting Center\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Restores relevance and spirituality to the process of becoming Bar\/Bat Mitzvah.\"\u003cbr\u003e --Rabbi David A. Cooper, author, \u003ci\u003eGod is a Verb\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Reclaiming Judaism","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47024029892848,"sku":"9780984804832","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780984804832_p0.jpg?v=1764106163","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780984804832","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}