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A Prayer of Thanks After Your Child’s B’nei Mitzvah When You’re Divorced

a person in a purple tallit gathers the four tzit-tzit in their hands
 
Source of all blessing, grant me the words to describe the debt of gratitude that I must express for the miracle of getting to and through this day. After so much build up, so much planning, so many tears and so many doubts, we did it. We observed and we celebrated. We prayed and we danced. We uttered your name in praise and in thanks … and you delivered!
 
The Bar/Bat/B Mitzvah of __________ ___________ son/daughter/child of ________ and ________ happened and I could not be more proud. And I could not be more relieved. As life-affirming ceremonies go, this Bar/Bat/B Mitzvah lived up to the hopes I didn’t dare hope for, but should have. Our family, so shattered, so seemingly broken, was given new life today.
 
These life moments don’t simply happen. We took our place within the story of the Jewish people. We held the Torah close and we found a source of joy beyond ourselves. Today was nothing short of a miracle. It may be impossible to fully describe the state of gratitude right now, but it is incumbent upon us to try.
 
May we look upon our people and our family with fresh eyes today. May we understand the success of today’s Bar/Bat/B Mitzvah not despite the divorce and all the aftermath, but rather in concert with our family’s re-alignment. And may we be vessels of hope for other families going through struggles and transitions.
 
As it says in the Psalms, “In the evening one retires weeping, but there is joy in the morning.”
 
Ken Yehi Ratzon. May it be your will.

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