[yshavurah] Fwd: MAIL-HAVURAH digest 938
- From: Clevineys@xxxxxxx
- To: yshavurah@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 12:43:38 EST
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Hello All,
It's interesting to see the kinds of issues other Havurahs are struggling
with or thinking about
Cheryl
In a message dated 12/8/2002 8:56:20 PM Pacific Standard Time,
mail-havurah@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> From: Steve Freides <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: National Havurah Committee Mailing List <mail-havurah@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [MAIL-HAVURAH:4437] Life Cycle Events Without Clergy?
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 18:18:08 EST
>
> If one of the children in our recently-started havura wants to have a
> Bar or Bat Mitzvah, is that something we can 'legally', Jewish or
> otherwise, do? I have enough of a background that, with a bit of work
> on my part, I could teach a child what he needs to know in terms of
> reading Hebrew, etc., but does one need a rabbi to have it be considered
> official in some way? Is a Bar/Bat Mitzvah really anything other than
> an of-age person reading Torah for the first time and, in that way,
> different from, say, a wedding, which is a ceremony with legal
> implications, both Jewish and otherwise?
>
> We are years away from this as the oldest child in our Havura is only 10
> but the subject has already come up. None of our members participates
> in a synagogue.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> -S-
>
>
>
Cheryl B. Levine, Psy.D.
Clinical and Consulting Psychologist
Positive Perspectives, Inc.
680 E. Dayton Yellow Springs Road
Fairborn, OH 45324
(937) 390-3800
Behavioral Science Coordinator
"Mad River Family Practice:
Ohio State University Rural Program"
4879 US Route 68 South
West Liberty, OH 43311
(937) 465-0080
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
--T.S. Eliot
-- Attached file included as plaintext by Ecartis --
Return-Path: <owner-mail-havurah@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Received: from rly-xj04.mx.aol.com (rly-xj04.mail.aol.com [172.20.116.41]) by
air-xj02.mail.aol.com (v89.21) with ESMTP id MAILINXJ22-1208235620; Sun, 08 Dec
2002 23:56:20 -0500
Received: from shamash.org (shamash3.shamash.org [207.244.122.42]) by
rly-xj04.mx.aol.com (v89.21) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINXJ46-1208235609; Sun, 08
Dec 2002 23:56:09 -0500
Received: (qmail 25833 invoked from network); 9 Dec 2002 05:00:31 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO shamash.org) (127.0.0.1)
by shamash.org with SMTP; 9 Dec 2002 05:00:31 -0000
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 00:00:27 EST
Sender: owner-mail-havurah@xxxxxxxxxxx
Reply-To: mail-havurah@xxxxxxxxxxx
From: National Havurah Committee Mailing List <mail-havurah@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: National Havurah Committee Mailing List <mail-havurah@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: MAIL-HAVURAH digest 938
X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.2.09/990901/11:28 -- ListProc(tm) by CREN
Message-ID: <200212082356.06XNDJCox4qYB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
X-Mailer: Unknown (No Version)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
MAIL-HAVURAH Digest 938
Topics covered in this issue include:
1) Life Cycle Events Without Clergy?
by Steve Freides <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
----------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Steve Freides <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: National Havurah Committee Mailing List <mail-havurah@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [MAIL-HAVURAH:4437] Life Cycle Events Without Clergy?
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 18:18:08 EST
If one of the children in our recently-started havura wants to have a
Bar or Bat Mitzvah, is that something we can 'legally', Jewish or
otherwise, do? I have enough of a background that, with a bit of work
on my part, I could teach a child what he needs to know in terms of
reading Hebrew, etc., but does one need a rabbi to have it be considered
official in some way? Is a Bar/Bat Mitzvah really anything other than
an of-age person reading Torah for the first time and, in that way,
different from, say, a wedding, which is a ceremony with legal
implications, both Jewish and otherwise?
We are years away from this as the oldest child in our Havura is only 10
but the subject has already come up. None of our members participates
in a synagogue.
Thanks in advance.
-S-
_________________________________________________________________
Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE*
http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail
------------------------------
End of MAIL-HAVURAH Digest 938
******************************
---------------------- mail-havurah@xxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------+
Hosted by Shamash: The Jewish Network http://shamash.org
A service of Hebrew College, offering online courses and an
online MA in Jewish Studies, http://hebrewcollege.edu/online/
MyJewishLearning.com, The Personal Gateway to Jewish Exploration
Officially launches: http://MyJewishLearning.com/index.htm?source=shamash
---------------------- mail-havurah@xxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------=
Other related posts:
- » [yshavurah] Fwd: MAIL-HAVURAH digest 938
