Sample Program
By Pamela Saeks
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Note: This is an excerpt from a sample of how a program could look and is not a complete representation of a synagogue service.
| Preliminary Service |
, Family Friend |
| Pages 1-336, Prayer Book |
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| Shaharit (Morning Service) |
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| Pages 336-392, Prayer Book |
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| Lechi Lach |
Performed by |
| Presentation of Tallit |
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| Shehecheyanu |
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| Opening of the Ark |
, Uncle/Grandfather |
| Page 394, Prayer Book |
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| Aliyah #1 |
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| Torah Reader |
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| Page 69-73, Humash, Bereshit (Genesis) 12:1- 12:13 |
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| Prayer for Our Country, English |
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| Page 415, Prayer Book |
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The Bar/Bat Mitzvah Ideas and Primer for Interfaith Families is also available as a PDF and Word document.
"Going up" in Hebrew. The honor of going to the front of the synagogue to say the blessing over a portion of the Torah reading. Can also refer to the act of immigrating to Israel. (e.g. "After falling in love with Jerusalem, Rachel and Christopher made aliyah.")
Cabinet at the front of the synagogue where the Torah is kept.
In modern Jewish practice, Jewish boys come of age at 13. When a boy comes of age, he is officially a Bar Mitzvah ("son of the commandments"). The term is commonly used as a short-hand for the Bar Mitzvah\'s coming-of-age ceremony and/or celebration. The female equivalent is "Bat Mitzvah."
"Who has given us life" in Hebrew. Part of a blessing thanking God for bringing us to a special moment.
Place of Jewish worship, referring to both the room where it occurs and the building where it occurs. Colloquially referred to as "temple."
Hebrew word for a prayer shawl.
The first five books of the Hebrew Bible, or the scroll that contains them.
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Pamela Saeks lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, and is a member of the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati.
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