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Bnei (Bar/Bat) Mitsvah & Other Birthday Prayers

This is an archive of prayers and related resources for those celebrating a bnei mitsvah or other birthday celebration.

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וִדּוּי בַּיָּמִים מֵחֲמִשִּׁים שָׁנָה וְאֵלֶךְ | Vidui for those fifty years old and over, by Rabbi Mosheh Halperin (1611)

This vidui prayer for those privileged to live past the age of 50 is found in Rabbi Mosheh ben Zevulun Eliezer Halperin’s Zikhron Mosheh (Lublin: 1611), siman 13. . . .

Tags: 17th century C.E., 54th century A.M., עמידה amidah, memento mori, וידוי vidui

Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Aharon N. Varady (translation), Abe Katz (translation) and Mosheh Halperin

שֶׁהֶחֱיָֽנוּ | Sheheḥiyanu, a rhyming translation by Jessie Ethel Sampter (1919)

This translation of the blessing sheheḥiyanu was written by Jessie Ethel Sampter and published under the title “Blessing for Rosh-Hashanah” in her Around the Year in Rhymes for the Jewish Child (1920), p. 11. . . .

Categories: Bnei (Bar/Bat) Mitsvah & Other Birthday Prayers, Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit)

Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., appreciation, blessings, rhyming translation, שהחינו shehiyanu

Contributor(s): Jessie Ethel Sampter and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

On the Decalogue, life wisdom for a Bnei Mitsvah by Rabbi Dr. Mordecai Kaplan (ca. 1920s)

This is a restatement of the Decalogue offered as life wisdom by Rabbi Dr. Mordecai Kaplan for his daughters, sometime in the 1920s, possibly as early as 1922 at the Bat Mitsvah of his oldest daughter Judith. The document was found by Mel Scult and shared by him from his Mordecai Kaplan Discussion Group on Facebook. . . .

Categories: Bnei (Bar/Bat) Mitsvah & Other Birthday Prayers, Addenda

Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., civil declarations and charters, Decalogue, declarations, מוסר mussar

Contributor(s): Mordecai Kaplan and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

מזמור לתודה לכבוד משה איש האלהים | A Thanksgiving in Commemoration of Moses Maimonides, an octocentennial prayer by Ḥakham Shem Tov Gaguine (Bevis Marks Synagogue, 27 May 1935)

“A Thanksgiving in Commemoration of Moses Maimonides” with its accompanying Hashkabah is found in the Service of Praise and Thanksgiving to Commemorate the 800th Anniversary of the Birth of Moses Maimonides prepared by Bevis Marks Synagogue in London on 27 May 1935. . . .

Categories: Bnei (Bar/Bat) Mitsvah & Other Birthday Prayers

Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Maimonides, Moshe ben Maimon, Western Sepharadim

Contributor(s): Shem Tov Gaguine and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

מי שברך לתקופת יום הולדת | Mi sheBerakh on behalf of one celebrating a birthday, by Rabbi Dr. Mordecai Kaplan (1945)

“Prayer in behalf of one celebrating a birthday,” by Rabbi Mordecai Menaḥem Kaplan can be found on p. 494-497 of his The Sabbath Prayer Book (New York: The Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation, 1945) . . .

Categories: Bnei (Bar/Bat) Mitsvah & Other Birthday Prayers, During the Aliyot, Well-being, health, and caregiving, Old Age

Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., ageing, birthday prayers, מי שברך mi sheberakh

Contributor(s): Mordecai Kaplan and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

ברכת הורים לבר או בת מצווה | Parents’ blessing for a Bar or Bat Mitsvah by Rabbi Dr. Aryeh Cohen

I wrote this brachah on the occasion of my son Oryah’s bar mitsvah. The Aramaic/Hebrew and the translation are mine. My partner and I recited the blessing after my son was called up to the Torah. The brachah replaces the ברוך שפטרנו which is recited in some communities. This blessing (which is basically self-explanatory) expresses gratitude for Divine favor leading to this moment and a prayer for Heavenly guidance for my son’s continued path. Though the translation is gender neutral in relation to God, the Hebrew/Aramaic is gendered masculine. This is my practice with regards to my children. I bless my daughter with feminine God language and my son with masculine God language. The blessing can be grammatically adapted for a bat mitsvah. . . .

Categories: Bnei (Bar/Bat) Mitsvah & Other Birthday Prayers

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Bar Mitsvah, בת מצוה Bat Mitsvah, Parents blessing children, prayers for adolescents, Prayers of Primary Caregivers

Contributor(s): Aryeh Cohen

שבחי המשפחה לבת המצווה | A Prayer in Honor of a Bat mitsvah from her Family, by Dr. Chaim Hames-Ezra

A prayer for a ritual of blessing of a bat mitsvah by her family. . . .

Categories: Bnei (Bar/Bat) Mitsvah & Other Birthday Prayers

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., בת מצוה Bat Mitsvah, prayers concerning children, Prayers of Primary Caregivers, ישראל Yisrael

Contributor(s): חיים היימס-עזרא and Refoyl Finkl (translation)

תפילת בת המצווה | Prayer of the Bat mitsvah after she finishes reading from the Torah, by Chaim Hames-Ezra

A statement by the Bat Mitsvah after her first aliyah. . . .

Categories: Bnei (Bar/Bat) Mitsvah & Other Birthday Prayers

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., בת מצוה Bat Mitsvah, Jewish Women's Prayers, קריאת התורה ḳriyat hatorah, Masorti, ישראל Yisrael

Contributor(s): חיים היימס-עזרא

ברכת יוצר האדם | Mi sheberakh for the egg donor, gestational surrogate, physicians, and parents of children celebrating their Bnei Mitsvah, by Rabbi Esteban Gottfried (2022)

This is a “Blessing for the human creation” composed by Rabbi Esteban Gottfried for a mi sheberakh delivered after the Torah reading of twin siblings celebrating their bar and bat mitsvah. Both children came into this world through medical intervention, egg donation, and surrogate pregnancy. “It was a really moving ceremony,” said Rabbi Gottfried, “it is very rare that the parents are in touch with the egg donor and pregnancy surrogate (from the US and Ukraine) thirteen years later, and they all celebrate together….After their ascent to the Torah, I asked the parents together with the donor and the surrogate to take the stage and greet them. I share here (with their approval) the blessing of the “Human Creation.” . . .

Categories: Bnei (Bar/Bat) Mitsvah & Other Birthday Prayers

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., אשר יצר Asher Yatsar, Beit Tefillah Yisraeli, Btselem Elohim, Needing Proofreading, Needing Vocalization, prayers on behalf of parents, prayers of health care workers

Contributor(s): Esteban Gottfried

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ויהי נעם אדני אלהינו עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננה עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננהו "May the pleasantness of אדֹני our elo’ah be upon us; may our handiwork be established for us — our handiwork, may it be established." –Psalms 90:17

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