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Kids and I went to our first Bar Mitzvah!
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<blockquote data-quote="ThreeShadows" data-source="post: 353090" data-attributes="member: 6370"><p>Yeah for you too! How wonderful, you have a life! You can make it despite his failings as a husband!</p><p></p><p>We went to our one and only Bar Mitzvah in Portland Maine when the boys were 13. It was for an adoptee who was their school friend. I was a nervous wreck because the ceremony lasted THREE hours and our sons couldn't sit for 15 mns without having issues. I was so impressed by the process. I was raised catholic and had been resisting any kind of religious ritual for years because of family issues. Every time a child showed up, the female rabbi interrupted the service and made a public welcome. I never witnessed so much admiration and love for children. I cried for three hours straight because the boy had been born into a non jewish family and passionately welcomed into a jewish one. I wanted to become jewish in order to be accepted by so many people with so much warmth.</p><p></p><p>In my eyes, a huge problem is that the adoption process has no public display of acceptance into society. This ceremony was a revelation.</p><p></p><p>The entire time I was in that synagogue, I thought of all the beloved children who had been exterminated in the camps just because of their origins.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ThreeShadows, post: 353090, member: 6370"] Yeah for you too! How wonderful, you have a life! You can make it despite his failings as a husband! We went to our one and only Bar Mitzvah in Portland Maine when the boys were 13. It was for an adoptee who was their school friend. I was a nervous wreck because the ceremony lasted THREE hours and our sons couldn't sit for 15 mns without having issues. I was so impressed by the process. I was raised catholic and had been resisting any kind of religious ritual for years because of family issues. Every time a child showed up, the female rabbi interrupted the service and made a public welcome. I never witnessed so much admiration and love for children. I cried for three hours straight because the boy had been born into a non jewish family and passionately welcomed into a jewish one. I wanted to become jewish in order to be accepted by so many people with so much warmth. In my eyes, a huge problem is that the adoption process has no public display of acceptance into society. This ceremony was a revelation. The entire time I was in that synagogue, I thought of all the beloved children who had been exterminated in the camps just because of their origins. [/QUOTE]
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