American Jewish Life

Title

B'nei mitzvah masks, instead of kippot

Description

These two masks were given to the immediate family and clergy for two young people at Temple Beth Jacob in Concord, NH who became b'nei mitzvah during the second year of the pandemic. Yonatan Benyamin was originally scheduled to become a bar mitzvah on Shabbat Vayikra 2020, and postponed to Shabbat Vayikra 2021, becoming the first in his now 8th grade class to celebrate. The irony is that the Friday morning before he became a bar mitzvah, his older brother, a college student, was diagnosed with COVID and had too quarantine. By counting one Torah scroll, we managed to have a minyan. 4/10/21 was from a girl who was first in her 7th grade class to become bar or bat mitzvah, on Shabbat Sh'mini, just three weeks after Yonatan Benyamin. Once again, we counted a Torah scroll to get a minyan. I am so proud of how these two -- and their classmates -- have persevered.

Date Created

2021

Community

Temple Beth Jacob

Denomination

Reform

State

New Hampshire

Place

Concord

Genre

images

This item was submitted on June 8, 2021 by Rabbi Robin Nafshi using the form “Contribute Your Materials” on the site “American Jewish Life”: https://pandemicreligion.org/s/american-jewish-life