Bar/Bat Mitzvah Survival Guides: Shemini (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: - Va-Yikra / Leviticus 9: 1 to 11: 47 - 2 Shemu'el / Samuel 6: 1 to 7: 17 - Ba-Midbar / Numbers 19: 1-22 (Shabbat Parah) - Yehezk'el / Ezekiel 36: 16-38 (Shabbat Parah) - Shemot / Exodus 12: 1-20 (Shabbat Ha-Hodesh) - Yehezk'el / Ezekiel 45: 16 to 46: 18 (Shabbat Ha-Hodesh) - 1 Samuel / Shmu'el 20: 18-42 (Mahar Hodesh) - Blessings for reading the Torah and Haftarah (traditional and alternative) Hebrew texts include: - Va-Yikra / Leviticus 11: 45-47 (weekly Maftir) - 2 Shemu'el / Samuel 6: 1 to 7: 17 or 2 Shemu'el / Samuel 6: 1-19 (weekly Haftarah options) - Ba-Midbar / Numbers 19: 1-22 (Maftir for Shabbat Parah) - Yehezk'el / Ezekiel 36: 16-38 or 36: 16-36 (Haftarah options for Shabbat Parah) - Shemot / Exodus 12: 1-20 (Maftir for Shabbat Ha-Hodesh) - Yehezk'el / Ezekiel 45: 16 to 46: 18 or 45: 18 to 46: 15 (Haftarah options for Shabbat Ha-Hodesh) - 1 Samuel / Shmu'el 20: 18-42 (Haftarah for Mahar Hodesh) - 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.