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“This is the day the Lord has made; Let us rejoice and celebrate on it.” 

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With gladness and thanksgiving we praise You, O Lord our God, for having kept us alive, and sustained us, and enabled us to reach this day. 

We give thanks for the wondrous privilege of seeing our son grow day by day, week by week, year by year. For the health and strength You have given him, for the mind and spirit with which You endowed him, for his ability to elicit and return love --- for all these precious gifts, we thank You. 

Watch over him, O God, on this special day and every day. 
Grant him a growing understanding of the true significance of this occasion and a deepening loyalty to everything which it represents. 
May the teachings of our heritage guide him throughout life; and may he lead a life worthy of Your blessings. Amen. 

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Lord our God, author of life and source of all blessings, we praise You for keeping us alive, and sustaining us, and enabling us to reach this day. 

Gratefully we thank You for the joyous privilege of seeing our son attain this milestone. On this day cherished dreams and hopes are fulfilled. On this day new dreams and new hopes are born. 

We pray that Your protecting and loving care will accompany him wherever he goes and in all that he does. Help him to become all that he is capable of being. Give him strength to do all the good things that are within his reach. Keep him loyal to the best that he has been shown, and to the noblest Jewish teachings he has been taught. 

May his deeds find favour in the eyes of his fellow men and be worthy of Your blessings. Amen. 
 

Parents of a Bat Mitzvah may say either of these prayers:
 

“This is lhe day the Lord has made; Let us rejoice and celebrate on it.” 

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On this Shabbat when our daughter becomes a Bat Mitzvah, we have come with her and our loved ones to join in worship and to offer our prayer or thanksgiving. 

We are grateful, O God, for the privilege of passing along the gift of life which You gave us, thus sharing with You in the miracle of creation. We are grateful for the thirteen years of nurturing this life, for the unnumbered joys and challenges which these years have brought us. Praise to You. O Lord, for keeping us alive, for sustaining us, and for enabling us to reach this day. 

Bless our daughter, O God; watch over her, protect her, guide her. Help her to continue to grow in body and mind, in soul and character. Keep her loyal to our people and to the teachings or our Torah. May her life be rich and rewarding. May all her deeds bring pride to us, honor to the house of Israel, and glory to Your name. Amen. 
 

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We thank You, a God, for the joyous fulfilment we feel as our daughter reaches the threshold of womanhood. 
How privileged we feel that she is our daughter, and that she is bound to us by bonds of love, of memory and of hope! . 

Praise to You, a Lord our God, who has kept us alive, and sustained us, and enabled us to reach this day. 
O God, accept our thankfulness for the thirteen years that have come and gone; bless our hope for the years that are yet to be. 

May Your mercy and guidance accompany this Bat Mitzvah at all times, in a life marked by reverence for Torah and love of all Your children. Amen.