{"id":568,"date":"2009-06-12T18:33:25","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T15:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/?p=568"},"modified":"2009-06-12T18:33:25","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T15:33:25","slug":"matans-bar-mitzvah-take-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/12\/matans-bar-mitzvah-take-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Matan&#8217;s Bar Mitzvah &#8212; Take 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The third of our grandsons has become a Bar Mitzvah.  The first one, Tzvi, celebrated in Kfar Etzion on a cold rainy winter shabbat.  The warmth was provided by the large extended family.  The second one, Daniel, celebrated just a couple of kilometers away in his home yishuv, Alon Shevut.  The third, Matan, celebrated at the Kotel, the Western Wall&#8211; yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The Kotel, the place where Jews from all over the world come to pray, is, on Monday and Thursday mornings, the scene of non-stop Bar Mitzvahs.  People come from all over the world with their immediate, or if they can afford it, with their extended family, to celebrate there.  For us, it was a ride of about 50 minutes and a walk through the alleyways of the Old City of about another 10 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>And what a scene it was with happy people from all over the world!  Groups of tourists crowded the plaza.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/IMGP3237.jpg\" alt=\"IMGP3237\" title=\"Matan with Torah\" width=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/IMGP3237.jpg 800w, https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/IMGP3237-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/IMGP3250.jpg\" alt=\"Matan reading the Torah\" title=\"Matan reading the Torah\" width=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/IMGP3250.jpg 800w, https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/IMGP3250-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We are anticipating another celebration of his bar mitzvah in the future with the whole family.  Until then,<br \/>\n\u00d7\u203a\u00d7\u0153 \u00d7\u201d\u00d7\u203a\u00d7\u2018\u00d7\u2022\u00d7\u201c<br \/>\nWay to go!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_598\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-598\" src=\"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/IMGP3256.jpg\" alt=\"Matan\" title=\"Matan\" width=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/IMGP3256.jpg 800w, https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/IMGP3256-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-598\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matan<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third of our grandsons has become a Bar Mitzvah. The first one, Tzvi, celebrated in Kfar Etzion on a cold rainy winter shabbat. The warmth was provided by the large extended family. The second one, Daniel, celebrated just a couple of kilometers away in his home yishuv, Alon Shevut. The third, Matan, celebrated at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}