•Hello, and welcome to my Bar Mitzvah. Thank you all for coming, especially those who traveled a long distance to get here.  • I heard the Rabbi almost didn’t make it here,  he was in the airport and he started to sing “Bim BOMB”  which is not something tosing loudly in an airport. •  I also want to thank Rabbi Arella Bar Lev, for coming today to lead the dancing. I’ve never met Rabbi Bar Lev before, so welcome. • I want to thank my parents for helping me get ready for my Bar Mitzvah, I’d like to thank my father for helping me learn to read Hebrew, I’d like to thank my mother for encouraging me and supporting me. • I’d like to thank my brother for driving me places,  and my sisters for babysitting me when I was little. •Today is the Sabbath. The Sabbath is the day of rest. The day you do not work. The day where you sleep a lot and eat a lot and light candles.  The Sabbath started last night at sunset and will end tonight at sunset. •Who here likes to work? Raise your hands.  Well I’m sorry but you don’t get to work today. •Who here likes to sing songs and pray?  Well, whether you do or not, you get to today. •The Sabbath is the weekend. Without the weekend, I’d still be at school. My dad and mom would still be at work. David would be who knows where. So Thank God for the Sabbath. •The Sabbath is a time to feel peace. The Sabbath is a time to give thanks. To stop and notice things that we are too busy to see during the work week.  Things like nature. Things like our friends and family. And stuff like that. I’d like to show some pictures to explain what I mean. Things I am thankful for. •I’d like to invite my mother, Rhonda to come up now and light the Sabbath candles and lead us in the blessing over the lights.