For Kids—Putting God on Your Guest List (2nd Edition): How to Claim the Spiritual Meaning of Your Bar or Bat Mitzvah
The kids' companion to the award-winning Putting God on the Guest List, 3rd Ed.: How to Reclaim the Spiritual Meaning of Your Child’s Bar or Bat Mitzvah
Used as an inspiring part of bar/bat mitzvah preparation for parents in hundreds of congregations around the world.
Jewish youngsters and their parents need to turn inward at bar and bat mitzvah time and ask themselves these hard questions: "Why are we doing this? What does it all mean?"
At last, a guide especially for kids, to help them spiritually prepare for their bar/bat mitzvah. Explains the core spiritual values of Judaism to young people in a language they can understand. Questions at the end of each chapter engage kids and let them offer their own thoughts. A special section helps parents and kids find places to perform acts of tzedakah to honor the event—newly revised and updated.
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Book details
- Author
- Jeffrey Salkin
- Imprint
- Jewish Lights, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Religion › Judaism
Religion › Judaism › Rituals & Practice - Topics
- bar and bat mitzvah · Jewish spirituality · Jewish coming of age · Judaism for teens · tzedakah · Jewish rituals and practice · religious identity
- ISBN-13
- 9781580233088 (Paperback)9781683360650 (Hardcover)
About the author
RABBI JEFFREY K. SALKIN is the editor of The Modern Men’s Torah Commentary: New Insights from Jewish Men on the 54 Weekly Torah Portions and Text Messages: A Torah Commentary for Teens, and the author of Being God’s Partner: How to Find the Hidden Link Between Spirituality and Your Work, Putting God on the Guest List: How to Reclaim the Spiritual Meaning of Your Child’s Bar or Bat Mitzvah, and Righteous Gentiles in the Hebrew Bible: Ancient Role Models for Sacred Relationships.
Salkin’s writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Reader’s Digest, and the Congressional Record. Putting God on the Guest List is a best-seller, and Being God’s Partner features an introduction by Norman Lear.