![]() ![]() Is set aside from the rest of the week both in honor of the fact that God rested on the seventh day after creating the world. portion at a Shabbat Shabbat is the Sabbath day, the Day of Rest, and is observed from Friday night through Saturday night. Kaplan, at the instigation of her iconoclastic father, Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, broke the gender barrier when she chanted from the haftarah The portion of the books of the prophets read on Shabbat after the Torah reading. The story of Judith, found in the apocrypha, is associated with Chanukah (relating to the tradition of eating cheese dishes because she seduced the general and fed him dairy). Seventy-five years ago, Judith Judith saved her people by seducing Holofernes, the enemy general, and then decapitating him. Mitzvah has also become colloquially assumed to mean the idea of a “good deed.", a rite of passage that welcomes boys in the community of adult Jewish men. It is traditionally held that there are 613 mitzvot (plural) in Judaism, both postive commandments (mandating actions) and negative commandments (prohibiting actions). Since the sixteenth century, Jews have responded to this time of intense physical, intellectual, social and spiritual change by welcoming boys into communities of Jewish men through bar mitzvah Lit. And young people’s spirits, often so free in the latency period of childhood, change too as waves of hormones roil, crest and crash. This is often a time when childhood friends are exchanged for other companions who may represent cultural, artistic, and personal choices previously unthinkable or unavailable to the pre-adolescent. ![]() ![]() Kids experience changes in their minds, too, in their ability to ask different questions than they have ever asked before, and to challenge norms that they have depended upon and taken for granted. Bodies are changing so rapidly and dramatically and idiosyncratically that many kids are frightened, stunned, and ashamed. Israeli Independence Day: Yom Ha’Atzmautĭetail from “Miryam’s tallit” by Anne YoungĮven before it had a name, adolescence was a stormy time, both for young people trying to make their way through this difficult adult passage between childhood and adulthood and for the adults who live with them. ![]()
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