Celebrate
The conclusion of your Chai Mitzvah experience is a time to celebrate you and what you’ve
accomplished and learned. It’s a time for acknowledgement and recognition. It’s a time for
reflection.
How to celebrate? It should be something to mark the accomplishment in a way that’s personally
connected to you.
- Have a backyard barbecue with family and friends
- Sponsor a Kiddush or an Oneg Shabbat at the synagogue
- Take your family and friends to a soup kitchen to prepare and serve a meal
- Recite your haftorah on your bar/bat mitzvah anniversary and having a luncheon
- Form a team of family and friends and participating in a local walk to support a cause
- Have the bar/bat mitzvah party that perhaps you never had
- Make a video/power point about your experience, show it to your family & friends and share a meal
- Give an award or scholarship to a deserving individual in honor of your experience
- Document your experience with photos and exhibit them, followed by a cocktail party
- Take a bike tour with friends and family to celebrate. It could be local, long distance or even in Israel through Hazon
- Travel to Israel and celebrate there!
- Participating synagogues are strongly encouraged to provide opportunities to publicly acknowledge their participants. Some communities may also hold a community wide celebration
