One
of the things I love to do is, offer an alternative Bar\Bat experience not only
for children with special needs, but also for children (and their parents) who
truly want to be part of a meaningful Rite of Passage. For so many children and
their families, this has become a Riteless Passage and Passageless Rite exiting
the Bar\Bat Mitzvah Mill. Large numbers of these post-Bar\Bat mitzvah vets will
not set foot in a synagogue again until necessary. The best way to understand
this rite is that it is not just the day --
it's all the choices and consequences which come after that day. Read Rabbi
Leynor’s blog at -- http://tovcenter.blogspot.com/2015/10/a-barbat-mitzvah-is-not-day-its-life.html
The witnesses, laying their coats at the feet of Saul, were the men that would cast the first stones at Stephen in Acts 7. Why did they all lay their coats at Saul’s feet? The Talmud contains a very interesting account of the act of stoning that may provide the answer. “When the trial was over, they take him [the condemned person] out to be stoned. The place of stoning was at a distance from the court, as it is said, ‘Take out the one who has cursed.’ [i] A man stands at the entrance of the court; in his hand is a signaling flag [Hebrew sudarin = sudar , ‘scarf, sweater’]. A horseman was stationed far away but within sight of him. If one [of the judges] says, ‘I have something [more] to say in his favor,’ he [the signaler] waves the sudarin , and the horseman runs and stops them [from stoning him]. Even if [the condemned person] himself says, ‘I have something to say in my favor,’ they bring him back, even four of five times, only provided that there is some substance to what he
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