A year before the B’Mitzvah they are also required to attend lessons and services every Shabbat morning. This is to prepare themselves for their lives as Jews and their role in the service. The Reform Bar/Bat Mitzvahīoys and girls who wish to celebrate becoming reform Bar/Bat Mitzvah are required to attend Hebrew and religion school classes twice a week for a minimum of two years. Bar Mitzvah boys explain the Torah portion and Haftorah, and are encouraged to demonstrate their ability to participate in a Shabbat service by leading a portion of the service. The Bat Mitzvah is a meaningful ceremony with the B’not Mitzvah presenting their own insights, including mystical dimensions along with primary traditions. The boy or girl will have spent at least a year learning with a Rabbi or Rebbetzin including insights of Jewish mysticism, which gives them a rich understanding of Judaism and Mitzvot. The Chabad Bar Mitzvahīar Mitzvah celebrations at Chabad reflect an emphasis on preparation for life after the event. Generally the boy honoured on this day, and is escorted to the synagogue by relatives, guests and friends. The Bar Mitzvah is celebrated for a few days, including the day of tefillin laying, on Shabbat and on Motzei Shabbat when the boy gives a Torah talk. As the boy is called to the Torah, “Piyutim” songs are sung in his honour. Monday or Thursday where applicable as well as Shabbat). It is a custom of many Sephardim that the Bar Mitzvah boy is called up to the Torah at the first opportunity (ie. It is customary that the grandparents, the father and the uncles of the boy are each honoured with winding the tefillin straps around his arm. A meal is held right after the laying to accentuate the joy and importance of the actual mitzvah observance of tefillin, which will be practiced daily for the rest of his life. the laying of tefillin which the Bar Mitzvah boy would do publicly by singing out the Shema and Kadesh-li with great celebration. In Sephardi tradition, a Bar Mitzvah celebration is often referred to as “Tefillin” ie. The black straps at the back of the boy’s head are part of his tefillin and indicate that this was a weekday Bar Mitzvah since tefillin are not worn on Shabbat. The Sephardi custom is for the Torah Scroll to be kept in a wooden case which opens so that it may be read, but the Scroll is not removed from the case. It’s called ‘I Want It That Way.’ Let’s go.A Sephardi boy reading the Torah at his Bar Mitzvah. He added, “If she could see me now … Like I said, this is one of the greatest songs in music history. It was the first time I ever felt like I had a shot at being cool.” “It was the first time I ever felt acknowledged. “At my bar mitzvah, for the first time in my life, this girl that I was in love with came up to me while one of the greatest songs in the world was playing … and she asked me if I would dance with her,” the rapper said on stage. Jewish Canadian rapper Drake joined Backstreet Boys onstage for a performance in his hometown of Toronto on Saturday and shared with the crowd a memory of dancing to one of the band’s classic songs at his bar mitzvah.ĭrake made a surprise appearance on the boy band’s DNA world tour and sang with them a rendition of “I Want It That Way.” Before the song started, the rapper, whose mother is Jewish, told the audience about a crush he had in middle school who approached him at his bar mitzvah and asked him to dance to the song. Canadian rapper Drake is seen at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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