Note: if you have questions, call (do not email) the rabbi before the rehearsal to get your questions answered.
__________ This checklist!
__________ The student's Bar/t Mitzvah Prayerbook (without transliteration).
__________ The parent's Prayerbook from Family class with your notes in it.
__________ Any special Haftarah & blessing sheets you wish to use.
__________ Prayer Options Sheet Filled in already
__________ Honors Sheet filled in with Hebrew names.
__________ Your Dvar Torah text
__________ Your kippah and tallit, if you will be wearing them. Make sure you know the tallit blessing.
__________ Your writtenParent(s)' blessing. Please email it to the
before the rehearsal. We will rehearse this!
__________ As we will be practicing Torah readings and blessings, as well as taking out the Torah from the ark and passing it down the generations, please try to bring as many of the people who will be reading from the Torah, doing blessings, and raising the Torah as you can.
No one may do Hagbahah unless they have rehearsed it with the Rabbi, at the rehearsal, or at another agreed-to time.
No exceptions.
Yes, we refuse people this honor if they do not rehearse with the rabbi.