Bar/Bat Mitzvah Survival Guides: Bereshit (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 included: - Genesis / Bereshit 1: 1 to 6: 8 - Isaiah / Yish'ayah 42: 5 to 43: 10 - 1 Samuel / 1 Shmu'el 20: 18-42 (special Haftarah for Machar Chodesh) - All blessings for the Torah and Haftarah (traditional and alternative versions) Hebrew texts included: - Genesis / Bereshit 6: 5-8 (Maftir) - Isaiah / Yish'ayah 42: 5-21 or 42: 5 to 43: 10 (weekly Haftarah) - 1 Samuel / 1 Shmu'el 20: 18-42 (special Haftarah for Machar Chodesh) - All blessings for the Torah and Haftarah (traditional and alternative versions)

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.