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Bar mitzvah : a guide to spiritual growth / Marc-Alain Ouaknin, Françoise-Anne Ménager ; illustrations by Gérard Garouste, photography by Laziz Hamani.
LIBRA BM707 .O83 2005
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ouaknin, Marc-Alain.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bar mitzvah.
- Bar mitzvah etiquette.
- Bar mitzvah sermons.
- Confirmation (Jewish rite).
- bar mitzvahs (religious ceremonies).
- Spiritual life--Judaism.
- Physical Description:
- 367 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Assouline, ©2005.
- Contents:
- Becoming Bar Mitzvah : looking at a rite of passage
- The Jewish identity
- The synagogue
- The Kippah
- The Tallith
- Tefillin : anatomy of a symbol
- Prayer
- Receiving the Torah
- The Bible
- The ascent to the Torah
- The Haftarah
- The speech
- Shabbat
- The Bar Mitzvah party
- Bar Mitzvahs throughout the world.
- Notes:
- "Translation from the French by Nicholas Elliott and Molly Stevens, The Art of Translation."--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 352-355).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 2843237181
- 9782843237188
- OCLC:
- 62790547
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