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Adult B’Mitzvah Class

Adult B’Mitzvah Class
Rabbi Serge Lippe
Tuesdays, 6:30-8:00pm
Beginning October 15, 2024
Ceremony on Saturday morning June 7 or 14, 2025

A year long course that focuses on both knowledgeable participation and leadership in Jewish worship services. Learn the basic structure and meanings of the prayer service, how to lead the prayers; the origins, development and practices of public reading from Torah and other books of the TaNaKh (Scripture), and various approaches to constructing and delivering d’rashot – sermons, teachings, messages about the intersection of sacred texts and our lives as Jews today. Each participant will lead an element of a Shabbat morning service, chant/read verses from the Torah and/or Haftara, and offer their own drasha at a class lead Shabbat morning service in June (TBD).
Requirements: Basic Hebrew phonetic decoding ability (sign up for Beginner’s Hebrew). The course is open to BHS members only.
 
Tue, November 5 2024 4 Cheshvan 5785