Bar Barakah: A Family Blessing For Childrens Rite Of PassageYou know, many years ago, I discovered a critical key that every parent has in his or her hand to release the future destiny of a son or daughter. And that this key is the key of blessing, imparting blessing. You know, almost every culture in the world has a rite of passage at the time of puberty â some way to release a boy to be a man or a girl to be a woman â except our culture. Our culture is virtually the void of that here in North America and our Western-European base culture. And many people have discovered in recent years the power in ceremony like Jewish people have â a bar mitzvah type of ceremony orbatmitzvah â where a boy is released to be a man, a girl is released to be a woman. And in much of our Christian heritage, we really donât know how to do that. And so, for many years, people asked me, âHow would I go about doing that? I want to have a celebration like that, but Iâm not Jewish. So I donât know how to have a bar mitzvah. How would we do that?â And so I wrote a little book called Bar ...
