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🖖︎ Prayers & Praxes —⟶ 🌳︎ Life cycle —⟶ Jewish Life Cycle —⟶ Bnei (Bar/Bat) Mitsvah & Other Birthday Prayers 🡄 (Previous category) :: 📁 Brit Milah & Simḥat Bat 📁 Engagements & Weddings :: (Next Category) 🡆 Bnei (Bar/Bat) Mitsvah & Other Birthday PrayersThis is an archive of prayers and related resources for those celebrating a bnei mitsvah or other birthday celebration. Filter resources by Name Felix Adler | Grace Aguilar | Arnaud Aron | Pereẓ (Peter) Beer | Marcus Heinrich Bresslau | Aryeh Cohen | Julia Matilda Waley Cohen | Angie Irma Cohon | Frederick de Sola Mendes | Miriam del Banco | Jonas Ennery | Refoyl Finkl (translation) | Shem Tov Gaguine | Esteban Gottfried | Mosheh Halperin | חיים היימס-עזרא | Mordecai Kaplan | Abe Katz (translation) | Max Lilienthal | Moritz Mayer | Lilian Helen Montagu | Jessie Ethel Sampter | Benjamin Szold | Aharon N. Varady (translation) | Aharon N. Varady (transcription) Filter resources by Tag ageing | עמידה amidah | Angelic Protection | appreciation | אשר יצר Asher Yatsar | Bar Mitsvah | בת מצוה Bat Mitsvah | Beit Tefillah Yisraeli | birthday prayers | blessings | Btselem Elohim | children's prayers | civil declarations and charters | confirmation | Decalogue | declarations | English poetry | English vernacular prayer | French Jewry | French vernacular prayer | German vernacular prayer | Gratitude | hand laying | hymns | Jewish Women's Prayers | קריאת התורה ḳriyat hatorah | Maimonides | Masorti | memento mori | מי שברך mi sheberakh | Moshe ben Maimon | מוסר mussar | Needing Proofreading | Needing Vocalization | paraliturgical modim | parents | Parents blessing children | Prayers as poems | prayers concerning children | prayers for adolescents | prayers on behalf of parents | prayers of health care workers | Prayers of Jewish Educators | Prayers of Primary Caregivers | rhyming translation | שהחינו shehiyanu | teḥinot in English | Teacher | תחינות teḥinot | Teḥinot in German | thanksgiving | וידוי vidui | West Central Girls' Club | Western Sepharadim | ישראל Yisrael | 17th century C.E. | 19th century C.E. | 20th century C.E. | 21st century C.E. | 54th century A.M. | 56th century A.M. | 57th century A.M. | 58th century A.M. Filter resources by Category Filtered by tag: “Btselem Elohim” (clear filter) Sorted Chronologically (old to new). Sort most recent first? 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
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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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