Tag #151789 - Interview #84041 (Yacob Hollander)

I turned 13 in 1940. The rebe began to prepare me for bar mitzvah. I had to prepare a short report on the Torah and learn the 54th article of the torah that each boy had to recite at his bar mitzvah. Besides, the rebe taught me to put the tefillin on my hand and head. The training took three months. I was an industrious pupil for my father to not feel ashamed for me. The bar mitzvah took place at the synagogue on the first Saturday after my birthday. My parents brought treatments. There was a table and some vodka and snacks on it at the synagogue. I had a tallit put on me for the first time in my life at my bar mitzvah and I became of age.