Chabad India usually celebrating other kind of Bar Mitzvah. Jews of different ages - who did not celebrate their bar mitzvah, celebrating their first putting on tefillin and Torah reading at chabad India ● But Bar Mitzvah at age 13 - it is something rare in chabad India. Last week there were three bar mitzvahs parallel in three Chabad houses in India ● what do you do when there is no candy to throw the Bar Mitzvah boy?
25 Shvat 5774 (1/26/2014)
Chabad India usually celebrating other kind of Bar Mitzvah. Jews of different ages - who did not celebrate their bar mitzvah, celebrating their first putting on tefillin and Torah reading at chabad India. But Bar Mitzvah at age 13 - it is something rare in chabad India. Last week there were three bar mitzvahs parallel in three Chabad houses in India
In Pune southern India celebrated boy from Congregation 'Sons of Israel', the oldest Jewish community in India. Town of Pushkar Israeli family decided to celebrate Bar Mitzvah during a trip to India. In Delhi the capital city, celebrated son of Deputy Ambassador of Israel to India.
An especially exciting moment was in Pune when the Bar Mitzvah boy helped his grandparents - paternal and maternal - put on tefillin. The young bar mitzvah boy, after proper preparation by Rabbi Bezalel Kopcik at Chabad of India, was well versed in put on tefillin and put on tefillin to the previous generations - "and he replied hearts of the fathers to the children".
In Pushkar town was an exciting Bar Mitzvah at Chabad India to Israeli child who came from Israel with his family for a trip. The bar mitzvah celebration the family held at Chabad India in Pushkar.
About the celebration told us the emissary to Pushkar: Rabbi Shimi Goldstein "The Barkan family and we - the Goldstein family, live three minutes away from each other in Israel. The first time we met was actually in Pushkar and most exciting event. Their eldest son, Aden, celebrates his Bar Mitzvah during their long trip (ten months in East ...)
"We won and the first Torah reading is made at Chabad of India in Pushkar. Candy delayed; the package did not arrive on time from Israel. So we were left to improvise according to local custom (Indian champions' improvisations). Children wrapped squares of chocolate with bright paper and here we have sweet candy.
Although happily participants knew each other just now, but brief acquaintance did not prevent everyone feel special joy and excitement to hear Jewish boy blessing: "who chose us from all the nations and gave us His Torah, Blessed are You, Giver of the Torah."
