Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin

Putting God on the Guest List, Third Edition (eBook, ePUB)

How to Reclaim the Spiritual Meaning of Your Child's Bar or Bat Mitzvah

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

PMA Best Religion Book of the Year!
The inspiring guide to spiritual celebration used in hundreds of congregations-Reform, Conservative, Reconstructionist-revised and expanded!

"Parents and their children acutely feel the social pressures that surround bar and bat mitzvah. But they want to feel the spiritual promise of the event, the pull of the divine, and the knowledge that they are participating in an event that has meaning both in the ancient past and in the very immediate present. They want to know that the steep incline before them is their family's own version of Sinai, the summit where, in every generation, Jews meet God, individually and as a people. They want to know that bar and bat mitzvah can be a path to that summit. And they want to know how to get there. . . . This book can be their guide."
-from "Why This Book Was Born"

Helps people find core spiritual values in American Jewry's most misunderstood ceremony-bar and bat mitzvah. In a joining of explanation, instruction and inspiration, Rabbi Salkin helps both parent and child truly be there when the moment of Sinai is recreated in their lives.

Rabbi Salkin asks and answers questions that make parents and children more comfortable with the event and able to experience it more joyfully. How did bar and bat mitzvah originate? What is the lasting significance of the event? What are the ethics of celebration? What specific things can you do to reclaim the spiritual meaning of the event? How to further develop spirituality? What spiritual values can parents and young people build together?

To help guide friends and family who are not Jewish through this important Jewish life cycle event, Rabbi Salkin provides a brief, welcoming overview: "What Non-Jews Should Know About the Bar and Bat Mitzvah Service."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Turner Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781580235570
• Artikelnr.: 49989871

Autorenporträt

Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin is recognized as one of the most thoughtful Jewish writers and teachers of his generation. He has helped people of all ages find spiritual meaning in both the great and small moments in life.

A noted author whose work has appeared in many publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Reader's Digest, and the Congressional Record, Rabbi Salkin is editor of The Modern Men's Torah Commentary: New Insights from Jewish Men on the 54 Weekly Torah Portions; and author of Being God's Partner: How to Find the Hidden Link Between Spirituality and Your Work, with an introduction by Norman Lear; the bestseller Putting God on the Guest List: How to Reclaim the Spiritual Meaning of Your Child's Bar or Bat Mitzvah; For Kids-Putting God on Your Guest List: How to Claim the Spiritual Meaning of Your Bar or Bat Mitzvah; and Righteous Gentiles in the Hebrew Bible: Ancient Role Models for Sacred Relationships (all Jewish Lights), among other books. ¿

Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin is available to speak on the following topics:
. Is God on Your Guest List?
. Where Are the Men?
. While You Were Out, God Called
. The Secret War Against Israel (or, Why John Lennon Was Wrong)
. Outside the Red Tent

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Foreword by Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, Congregation Beth-El Zedeck, Indianapolis Introduction by Rabbi H.William Lebeau, Vice Chancellor, The Jewish Theological Seminary of America Preface to the Third Edition Why This Book Was Born Chapter 1
Beyond "Today I Am a Man" Chapter 2
"Speak to the Children of Israel": How Bar and Bat Mitzvah Speak to the Inner Life of Children Chapter 3
The River of Tears: How Bar and Bat Mitzvah Speak to the Inner Lives of Parents and Grandparents Chapter 4
Hearing God's Voice: The Meaning of Torah Chapter 5
Putting the Mitzvah Back in Bar and Bat Mitzvah Chapter 6
Rites and Wrongs of Passage: Putting the Party in Perspective Chapter 7
To a Skeptical Jewish Parent Chapter 8
The Shabbat Morning Worship Service: Finding Your Place in the Words Chapter 9
The Changing Jewish Family Chapter 10
After the Thank You Notes: Helping Your Jewish Teenager Develop Jewish Values Appendix 1
What Non-Jews Should Know About the Bar and Bat Mitzvah Service Appendix 2
A List of Places for Your Tzedakah Go and Learn: Resources for Jewish Parents Glossary Bibliography and Suggestions for Further Reading