Phenomenal Insights about Bar Mitzvah and Tefillin
Phenomenal Insights about Bar Mitzvah and Tefillin
He turns thirteen and everything changes, in a way nobody quite explains to him. Why thirteen? What happens at that moment? And what are the tefillin he will put on for the rest of his life?
Fifty-two essays on the year that makes a boy a bar mitzvah — why the age is thirteen, the seudah and what makes it a seudas mitzvah, the speech, the night before, and the tefillin themselves.
Menachos on the tefillin themselves, with the Shulchan Aruch, the Rambam, the Ohr Hachaim and the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
A bar mitzvah gift that the boy will still be reading at twenty.
Rabbi Yehoshua Alt has written thirteen seforim in the Insights series, and writes the weekly Fascinating Insights sheet carried on JewishPress.com.
176 pages · hardcover or paperback · 6 × 9 in · English
What is inside
52 essays. A few of them:
- The Age of Spiritual Combat
- The Clock Strikes Thirteen
- Why 13?
- Bar Mitzvah Seudah
- Bar Mitzvah Speech
- When Two Teenagers Took Down a City
- Called to Command
- The Bar Mitzvah Night Dilemma
- Bar, Ben and the Bond
- Age of Diamonds
- and 42 more
Masechtos cited
Menachos · Shabbos · Pesachim · Sanhedrin · Megillah · Eruvin · Kiddushin · Chullin · Kesubos · Nedarim · Nazir · Yoma · Gittin · Baba Metzia · Baba Basra
Sources
Rashi · Shulchan Aruch · Rambam · Ohr Hachaim · Tosafos · Lubavitcher Rebbe · Brisker Rav · Zohar · Arizal · Igros Moshe · Midrash · Vilna Gaon · Yerushalmi · Shelah · Tur · Aruch Hashulchan · Steipler · Chazon Ish · Chofetz Chaim · Maharsha · Nefesh Hachaim
Suited to
Bar Mitzvah Gifts
What reviewers said
““Phenomenal Insights about Bar Mitzvah and Tefillin” gathers insights from throughout the Torah to present more than 50 engaging essays on the significance of bar mitzvah and tefillin.”
Chaim Yehuda Meyer, The Jewish Link
“Written in a clear and accessible style, this book is suitable for Jews of all ages and makes a wonderful bar mitzva present.”
Chaim Yehuda Meyer, Where What When
176 pages · 6 x 9 in · English