Home › Forums › Family Matters › Meaningful Bar mitzvah for someone secular
- This topic has 11 replies, 11 voices, and was last updated 5 years, 10 months ago by 1.
-
AuthorPosts
-
May 13, 2018 5:05 pm at 5:05 pm #1519833refoelzeevParticipant
I have a relative I’m close with who is celebrating his bar mitzvah soon. I’d like to get him a gift, something meaningful. The problem is anything I think of isn’t suitable. He won’t open any book I get him. Any judaica I get him will be ignored. He’s only into sports. His mom thinks I should get him a basketball kippah, but I’m not so into that, nor do I think that’s a substantial enough gift. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
May 13, 2018 6:19 pm at 6:19 pm #1519866refoelzeevParticipantAs the title mentions, he’s not observant
May 14, 2018 1:44 pm at 1:44 pm #1520352apushatayidParticipantI believe Rav Miller Z’l once answered “buy him a shaver” (I hope this is not used as an opening by some to debate the halachic and hashkafic dos and dont of shaving).
May 14, 2018 8:10 pm at 8:10 pm #1520561Uncle BenParticipantHow about a “shafer” instead of a shaver. Also known as a shofar.
May 15, 2018 10:39 am at 10:39 am #1520914🐵 ⌨ GamanitParticipantI actually agree with the shaver idea. If you get him an expensive kosher shaver he probably won’t replace it with a non-kosher shaver. He’ll probably also be excited at the prospect of needing it.
May 15, 2018 11:36 am at 11:36 am #1520950👑RebYidd23ParticipantFancy umbrella.
May 15, 2018 11:37 am at 11:37 am #1520955chasidParticipantHow about a pushke or a siddur
May 15, 2018 12:37 pm at 12:37 pm #1520977Reb EliezerParticipantGet him to put on Tefilin even once.
May 15, 2018 2:18 pm at 2:18 pm #1521013zahavasdadParticipantA Shaver is a good idea
May 15, 2018 2:20 pm at 2:20 pm #1521033☕ DaasYochid ☕ParticipantHow about a Shavigger?
May 15, 2018 2:22 pm at 2:22 pm #1521015ToiParticipantShaver is brilliant. Utterly brilliant. You may be saving him from being oiver literally hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of lavin.
May 18, 2018 3:42 pm at 3:42 pm #15228331ParticipantTell the kid shabbos and eating kosher are more important
-
AuthorPosts
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.