Bar/Bat Mitzvah & Hanachat Tefilin Date Request

Mazal tov! Your family is planning a milestone event in the life of your child. We encourage BMA families to share the dates of their Bar & Bat Mitzvah celebrations with the rest of the community well in advance so that we can minimize conflict with other family’s simchas. However you choose to commemorate this special day, we wish your entire family a Mazel Tov as you prepare for this joyous occasion.

As a community, BMA’s faculty and administration look forward to partnering with you for this simcha. In the event of an off-campus Bar/Bat Mitzvah, families are asked to inform the school of the dates and times in the form below.

There are several ways families can celebrate this event at school; please fill out the form below to provide us with the date of the Bar or Bat Mitzvah. We will be in touch to help you plan for this important occasion.

Here are the options for your simcha to be celebrated at school. You can begin the process can begin by filling out the form below.

1. Hanachat Tefilin (customs vary as to how long before the bar mitzvah boys being putting them on)
   1. Student puts on tefilin at school for the first time.
   2. Family and friends may attend.
   3. School must be informed of the guest list prior to the event for security purposes.
   4. Doughnuts may be purchased from the local Dunkin donuts (optional) for all 113 students (2018/19)
2. Bar Mitzvah Week
   1. Student will receive an Aliyah to the torah and can read his Parsha
   2. Family members can chose to receive an aliyah. (Aliyah list needs to be provided ahead of time)
   3. Family and friends may attend.
   4. School must be informed of the guest list prior to the event for security purposes.
   5. Doughnuts may be purchased from the local Dunkin donuts (optional) for all 113 students (2018/19)
   6. A male Judaic Studies who knows the students will deliver a dvar torah and words of bracha
3. Bat Mitzvah
   1. Student can host a Bat Mitzvah celebration in their respective tefila class or with all the girls in a joint class
   2. Family and friends may attend.
   3. School must be informed of the guest list prior to the event for security purposes.
   4. Doughnuts may be purchased from the local Dunkin donuts (optional) for all 113 students (2018/19)

Thank you,

Rabbi Yossi Kahan, Middle School Principal

Mirima LaTova, Mashgicha Ruchanit

Rabbi Elazar Bloom, Mashgiach Ruchani