Bar/Bat mitzvah tutor

[Anonymous]

If anyone is looking for a bar/bat mitzvah tutor or officiant - highly recommend Rabbi Winter - mygotorabbi.com

[Anonymous]

That's so weird - doesn't everyone just go to the rabbi and cantor at their temple?

[Anonymous]

Not if they don't belong to one

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not if they don't belong to one

Then where are they getting bar or bat mitzvah'd? Israel?

[Anonymous]

Thanks OP, I've been looking for this kind of recommendation.

[Anonymous]

Many people rent a hall or community center etc and have bar/bat mitzvah there

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not if they don't belong to one

Then where are they getting bar or bat mitzvah'd? Israel?

Rent-a-rabbi. There are For real rabbi's that cater to the unaffiliated. They tutor...oh and they are usually the ones that do mixed marriages.

If you are affiliated with a congregation, they will hook you up. At the Shul we belong to, there are about 110 B'nai Mitzvah per year, and there is a whole bunch of tutors. We pay a fee to the temple, and the temple assigns a tutor. This is really a good way to do it, as the temple can be more flexible with the payment arrangements (they pay the tutors directly) so that the economically challenged members are not shut out of the process. (For example, I was battling cancer when my DD was going through the process...less work and higher expenses were hard on the budget, but the temple just reduced our fees without reducing our services. Thank You TRS!).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Many people rent a hall or community center etc and have bar/bat mitzvah there

I had no idea. I always thought you had to get bar/bat mitzvah'd in a temple. I mean, does the rent-a-rabbi show up wheeling a little ark with a torah inside? But then how do they have that light above the ark that never goes out? Is this recognized as a legit thing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Many people rent a hall or community center etc and have bar/bat mitzvah there

I had no idea. I always thought you had to get bar/bat mitzvah'd in a temple. I mean, does the rent-a-rabbi show up wheeling a little ark with a torah inside? But then how do they have that light above the ark that never goes out? Is this recognized as a legit thing?

You do realize you can carry a Torah outside of the Temple? It doesn't have to be wheeled around?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Many people rent a hall or community center etc and have bar/bat mitzvah there

I had no idea. I always thought you had to get bar/bat mitzvah'd in a temple. I mean, does the rent-a-rabbi show up wheeling a little ark with a torah inside? But then how do they have that light above the ark that never goes out? Is this recognized as a legit thing?

If you start with the understanding that the bar/bat mitzvah is not a requirement but simply a recognition that the teen is now old enough to be considered an adult within the context of Judaism, I'm not sure how any ceremony would not be legit. Even if you don't have a ceremony at all, you are still considered a Jewish adult.

[Anonymous]

This same post is on Expecant Moms and probably other forums with different reasons (baby naming). Is the rabbi trying to get business?

[Anonymous]

I know the family and posted the information as I know they will be transitioning to this area in the near future.