Bar/Bat Mitzvah Survival Guides: Be-Shalah (Shabbat am) - Paperback

by Elliott Michaelson Majs (Author)

Torah Study & D'var Torah Writing for the 21st Century Featuring... - Full retellings of the Biblical text written at a teen level - Great advice on ways to approach the Biblical text - Handy charts & organizers for preparing a D'var Torah and learning the melodies for Torah and Haftarah trop - Full Hebrew texts of the weekly Torah & Haftarah - Blessings for all customs and traditions - Easy instructions for putting on tallit and tefillin - Links to maps and resources (ebook / ePub edition only) - Useful timeline of Biblical history and events English texts include: - Shemot / Exodus 13: 17 to 17: 16 - Shoftim / Judges 4:4 to 5:31 - Blessings for reading the Torah and Haftarah (traditional and alternative) Hebrew texts include: - Shemot / Exodus 17: 14-16 (Maftir) - Shoftim / Judges 4:4 to 5:31 and Shoftim / Judges 5: 1-31 (Ashkenazi and Sephardi Haftarah options) - Blessings for reading the Torah and Haftarah (traditional and alternative)

Author Biography

Elliott Michaelson is the owner of Adventure Judaism Classroom Solutions. He has been a Jewish educator for more than 20 years in Toronto-area synagogues, overnight camps and youth movements. Elliott has served as the Director of Education at Conservative and Reconstructionist synagogues in Toronto, and has been a Bar/Bat Mitzvah teacher for over a decade. A product of Toronto's Jewish day schools, he holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Jewish studies from York University and Gratz College, a certificate in Jewish Education, and a certificate in Ritual Direction from the Rabbinical Assembly of Ontario.