Montage

Thanks to EVERYONE for joining and helping in making Yosefs Bar Mitzvah Simcha so special.
For those who could not make it in person, we wish you were there and had you in mind.

Enjoy the Bar Mitzvah Montage which Yosef worked on for MANY weeks.
Chag Sameach.

Yosef's Bar Mitzvah Response Form

Please fill out the short form below and let us know if you plan on joining us in celebrating Yosefs Bar Mitzvah. Thanks Shlomo Elkie and Yosef.

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Yosefs Hanachat Teffilin

Baruch Shehechiyanu Vikiyemanu Lazman Hazeh.
Although we made two Bet Mitzvahs already, there's nothing like a Bar Mitzvah.
You have to look for teffilin, learn the Parsha, learn what it means to make the Minyan etc...

We went to the Kotel on Bet Adar Bet one month before Yosefs Bar Mitzvah.
Although I did not where a Talit at his age, many of his friends (lots of Sefardim) do where a talit at Bar Mitzvah. Yosef wanted to where one as well. We asked our Rav Harav Bar Haim who whole hardheartedly endorsed it. He said there is not reason once one is Bar Mitzvah not to where a talit.
Even the Yekas do so.
The probable reason they stopped doing so was perhaps they were very expensive at one time.
So we selected a nice tallit, and put on techelet as well.
We picked up Shimmy and Doni from ND on the way, and Yosef and Adina Karash and Shira and Esti Walfish joined us at the Kotel