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Sunday Hanukkah Bar Mitzvah
Question
I am interested in having a Sunday, Hanukkah Bar Mitzvah
for my son. I need input as to what to do. Which service, reading Torah during
Hanukkah etc.
Thank you.
Marsha
Answer Dear
Marsha:
The service for Hanukkah is the regular weekly service, though
"Al Hanissim", a special prayer recalling the miracle of Hanukah is
added in the Amidah (the section of the morning service we say standing up, after
the Shemah).
The Hanukkah service also includes Hallel, a prayer praising
God composed of Psalms, chapters 113 to 118, with blessings at the beginning and
at the end.
The Torah section is from Parashat Naso, in the book of Numbers.
If your son's Bar Mitzvah is this year, that means you will be celebrating it
on Sunday, December 21st, 2003, the 26th of Kislev 5764, the second day of Hanukkah.
The reading for the second day of Hanukkah is Numbers, chapter 7, verses 18 to
29. (In Israel a shorter section is read and some verses repeated, but I take
it your son is having his Bar Mitzvah ceremony outside of Israel). If you are
planning more than a year in advance, I would have to check the calendar to give
you the exact reading for that particular year.
Shabbat Shalom,
Rabbi
Diana Villa
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