Traditions And Celebrations For The Bat Mitzvah

by Wiskind Elper, Ora

• ISBN13: 9789657108529
• ISBN10: 9657108527
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-04-30
• Publisher: Urim Pubns

Summary

Since the Bat-Mitzvah celebration is not founded in ancient tradition, much confusion surrounds it. In Traditions and Celebrations for the Bat Mitzvah, rabbis and experienced educators, learned women and men, consider the occasion of bat mitzvah from a variety of perspectives legal, philosophical, pedagogical and personal. These essays offer reflections on the nature and form of the event itself, rabbinic responsa, source materials for study in preparation for the acceptance of mitzvot, and descriptions of existing bat mitzvah preparatory programs.

Table of Contents

Preface	13	(2)
Editor's Introduction	15	(4)
Journey to Herself	19	(16)
Baruch Kahana
I. Marking the Day and Celebrating the Occasion
Celebrating the Bat Mitzvah
Community-Designed Bat Mitzvah Celebrations	35	(20)
Rabbi Benny Lau
Celebrating Bat Mitzvah with a Seudat Mitzvah -- Should a Girl Give a Derashah or Make a Siyyum?	55	(29)
Yardena Cope-Yossef
Bat Mitzvah Celebrations	84	(6)
Rabbi Joel B. Wolowelsky
The Bat Mitzvah in Contemporary Law and Jewish Practice	90	(31)
Erica Brown
Responsa on Ways to Mark the Bat Mitzvah Day
How Should Bat Mitzvah be Celebrated?	121	(5)
Rabbi Ya'akov Ariel
Rabbanit Oshra Koren -- Responsum	126	(2)
Rabbanit Oshra Koren
The Way to Rejoice	128	(4)
Rabbanit Rivka Rappoport
Rabbi Seth Farber -- Responsum	132	(5)
Rabbi Seth Farber
Derashot in Honor of the Bat Mitzvah
Four Bat Mitzvah Derashot	137	(14)
Yael Levine
Felice Kahn Zisken
Sara Friedland BenArza
Bat Mitzvah as I Explained it to My Daughter	151	(10)
Manuel Weill
II. ``And Above All, Study Torah''
On Women and the Feminine
Re-creating Eve	161	(12)
Rachel Adelman
Hannah's Timeless Prayer	173	(11)
Gabriel H. Cohn
A Tent of Her Own	184	(2)
Rabbanit Malke Bina
Nehama on Women and Womanhood	186	(10)
Rabbi Aryeh Strikovsky
From Femininity to Holiness	196	(21)
Chana Ross Friedman
Halakhic Issues Concerning Women
Rosh Hodesh -- The Women's Holiday	217	(33)
Rabbanit Malka Puterkovsky
Candlelighting	250	(7)
Leora Bednarsh
Women and Zimmun	257	(12)
Rabbi Joel B. Wolowelsky
``And You Shall Teach Them to Your Daughters''	269	(12)
Rabbi Aryeh Strikovsky
Women's Megilla Reading	281	(26)
Rabbi Aryeh A. Frimer
Women and Torah Study	307	(4)
Rabbanit Malke Bina
Bat Mitzvah: Jewish Women Through the Ages	311	(6)
Rabbanit Oshra Koren
Tirza Kelman (Garber)
Inscribe This in a Book as a Remembrance	317	(5)
Bryna Jocheved Levy
Reflections of a Bat Mitzvah Tutor	322	(2)
Ilana Fodiman-Silverman
Sense and Sensibilities: Women and Talmud Torah	324	(17)
Bryna Jocheved Levy
Contributors	341