{"id":5615,"date":"2018-06-06T06:08:23","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T06:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2018\/06\/06\/parent-blessings-handbook-how-to-select-personalize-or-write-your-own"},"modified":"2018-06-06T06:08:23","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T06:08:23","slug":"parent-blessings-handbook-how-to-select-personalize-or-write-your-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2018\/06\/06\/parent-blessings-handbook-how-to-select-personalize-or-write-your-own\/","title":{"rendered":"Parent Blessings Handbook: How to Select, Personalize or Write Your Own"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This post contains a <a href=\"https:\/\/etzchayim.org\/sites\/etzchayim.org\/files\/images\/BartDocuments\/Parent%20Blessings%20Handbook%20prepared%20by%20Eileen%20Soffer%20sk712.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">7 page Parent Blessings Handbook<\/a> designed to help the parents of a Bar\/Bat Mitzvah select, personalize or write a meaningful blessing to be recited during the Shabbat morning service. It contains general information about blessings, a variety of traditional and alternative blessings, things to consider when selecting a blessing, and guiding questions to facilitate a conversation between parents and children about what type of blessing might be most meaningful. This handbook was prepared by Eileen Soffer for <a href=\"https:\/\/etzchayim.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Congregation Etz Chayim<\/a> in Palo Alto, CA, an\u00a0<\/em>e<em>galitarian, independent and inclusive Jewish community, which melds elements from Judaism\u2019s different branches.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2018\/10\/Parent-Blessings-Handbook-prepared-by-Eileen-Soffer-sk712.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\"  data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">Parent Blessings Handbook prepared by Eileen Soffer sk712<br\/><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post contains a 7 page Parent Blessings Handbook designed to help the parents of a Bar\/Bat Mitzvah select, personalize or write a meaningful blessing to be recited during the Shabbat morning service. It contains general information about blessings, a variety of traditional and alternative blessings, things to consider when selecting a blessing, and guiding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[219,308],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5615\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=5615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5615\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5618,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5615\/revisions\/5618\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5617\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=5615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=5615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=5615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}