Become the Person That You Want to Be

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is children’s birthdays.

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A Bat-Mitzvah poem for a girl’s first Torah reading about the choice of faith:

Become the person that you want to be,

Always faithful to your better self,

The one you must be honest with, or else*

Miss the grace of inner unity.

If you don’t have faith, then that’s your truth,

Though you don’t need faith to be a Jew.

Zealous faith and prayer may not be you.

Values, symbols, memories need no proof.

A Jew is both by birthright and by choice.

Here’s the song – now lend it, or not, your voice.

*For a Bar-Mitzvah poem for a boy: … self./Remember to confide in it or else

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Children’s Birthdays

3/25: Brenda Is Four

3/26: You’re Five

3/27: Six Years Old? How Can That Be

3/28: You’re Seven Years Old

3/29: Eight Years Old! A Happy Time

3/30: Eleven Is the Very Best Age to Be

3/31: Become the Person That You Want to Be