looking for a rabbi for a belated bat mitzvah

[rizz24]

hi,

i want to have a belated bat mitzvah of sorts at Burning Man this year. are there any rabbis attending that would like to lead the ceremony?

PM me or reply if interested or if you know someone who would be... thanks!!

Rizz

[Gothalot]

Mozeltov! Contact the Black Rock Gazette if you do this. I'll keep an eye out for the local BM Rabbi for ya.

Gothalot

[Simon said]

Ditto that. I dropped out of training when I was 13 and never was Bar Mitzvahed....I could care less but the folks were less than pleased.

Since it's been some 26 years since, and I can not read (yet alone chant) hebrew, we would need to find a "reformed" Rabbi that would perform the "ceremony".

Count me in.

[Pallindrome]

Technically, I don't think a rabbi is required. The essence of a Bar Mitzvah is that you say the blessing before the Torah reading, read from the scroll itself and say the blessing after. The big issue is getting an actual scroll.

Anyway, the people trying to organize Camp Israel were posting on one of the other boards (re: theme camps, I guess). Track them down; I think they're you're best bet.

[sgrunspa]

Technically, I don't think a rabbi is required. The essence of a Bar Mitzvah is that you say the blessing before the Torah reading, read from the scroll itself and say the blessing after. The big issue is getting an actual scroll.
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pallindrome is correct. You do not need a rabbi. You don't even need a scroll, if one isn't available. I think bringing an actual torah scroll to the playa would surely make it pasool (not kosher for use serivces) and no one would give you one to take anyway. The bar/bat mitvah is really more of a ritualized custom than a perscribed rite. So you can do it without the rabbi, without the scroll as long as you are surrended by friends and community. I have to say, you will have the craziest bar/bat mitvah pictures of anyone I know.