About six months before your Bar/Bat Mitzvah your family will receive a complete packet of information and guidelines at your first meeting with the rabbi and the cantor. To better assist and prepare you for this major milestone in your child’s and family’s life, sample copies of those guides are also available online from the following links:

Bar/Bat Mitzvah Parent Book
Bar/Bat Mitzvah Book – Part 1
Bar/Bat Mitzvah Book – Part 2
Bar/Bat Mitzvah: Coming of Age

Bar/Bat Mitzvah Prayer Sound Files
In order to further assist you in your Bar/Bat Mitzvah preparations, Cantor Gerber has provided mp3 sound files for each of the prayers for your ceremony as well as our regular Friday night and Saturday worship services. You can to listen to them as you practice or download them to listen to later on your own mp3 player. Just click on the ones you need.

Bar/Bat Mitzvah Prayers (mp3)

Friday Night Candle Blessing	G’vurot	Sim Shalom
Friday Kiddush	T’fillah	Birchot Hatorah
Yotzer	Yis’m’chu	B’racha before the Haftarah
Ahavah Rabah	Eloheynu R’tze	B’racha after the Haftarah
V’ahavta	Modim

Additional Prayers (mp3)

Shalom Rav	Vatiten Lanu for Atzeret Simchat Torah
Ashrei Yoshvey	Vatiten Lanu for Sukkot
Atah V’chartanu	B’racha after the Haftarah for Simchat Torah
Mourner’s Kaddish	B’racha after the Haftarah for Sukkot