The Bat & Bar Mitzvah Plaque

The decoration

The surrounding decoration of the Ceramic Bar & Bat Mitzvah Certificate is a composition of several outstanding landmarks from the Jerusalem skyline and various Bar Mitzvah symbols.

On the left side of the plaque:

• The Tower of David and the Dome of the Rock
• The old city walls incorporating the Hebrew passage from Mishlei, the Book of Proverbs (4,2) saying Ki lekach tov natati lachem, torati al ta'azovu (For I give you good doctrine; forsake ye not my teaching)
• The Mount Zion
• The Montefiore Windmill
• The YMCA building
• The Shrine of the Book at the Israel Museum
• The Western Wall (Kotel Hama'aravi)
• A rampant lion, the symbol of the tribe of Judah and of Jerusalem as well.

On the right side of the tile (clockwise from the top center):

• The tablets of the covenant with a crown and the Hebrew words Keter Torah (Torah Crown)
• For boys: a pair of Tefillin (phylacteries) along with the Hebrew letters Bet-Samech-Daled, the acronim for Besyatah Deshmayah (Aramaic: "With God's Help")
• For girls: a pair of Shabbat Candles
• A partly unrolled Torah Scroll
• Two illustrations of Torah reading.

The personal inscription

This part of the Ceramic Bar Mitzvah Certificate contains the personal details of the Bar Mizvah, in Hebrew and in English, and is inscribed according to the information you supply during the order process.
Please note that the entire calligraphic inscription is written with a free hand by a professional calligraphy artist, and therefore the lettering differs slightly with each name or letter combination.

The central area of the Bar Mitzva certificate carries two sets of details, a standard inscription of the Bar Mitzvah's name and his ceremony, and optional additional details.

The inscription elements:

• Date of the event according to Common and Hebrew calendars
• Hebrew name of the Parashah (portion of the Torah) read by the Boy
• Boy's Hebrew name or Girl's Hebrew name, in Hebrew letters
• Boy's or girl's English name, in Latin letters
  
  OF COURSE, if you choose to add the family name (as in the image samples) the fonts will be written smaller
  
  
• The sentence: "Was called up to the Torah as a Bar Mitzvah" (or "Bat Mitzvah" for a girl)

The additional details:

At the lower part of the inscription area of the plaque there is room for two additional details: at the left you may insert the congregation's name & place (as in the sample picture); at the right you may add the name of the Cantor or Rabbi who taught the boy, or a short greeting like "Mazel Tov from Bubbie & Zaidie".