Confirmation

Connect Shavuot (receiving Torah) to older teens choosing to affirm their Judaism.

Children wonder and discover; you facilitate more than you lecture.

• What does ‘we all stood at Sinai’ mean to you?
• Why continue Jewish education?
• What’s the difference between being told to do something and choosing it?

Confirmation, around 10th grade and tied to Shavuot, is when teens choose to affirm their Jewish commitment — emphasizing that Judaism is chosen, not just inherited.

• Confirmation — affirming commitment
• Shavuot — receiving Torah

“Why keep learning after B’nei Mitzvah?”

Because Jewish learning is for a lifetime — and now it’s your choice, which makes it powerful.

• Children connect Shavuot and Confirmation.
• Children explore choosing to continue learning.

Frame ongoing learning as a joyful choice open to all, not an obligation that excludes.

Folktale. We Were All at Sinai (Midrash) — every Jewish soul, past and future, stood together at Sinai.

Changemaker. Mordecai Kaplan — a thinker who reimagined how Jews choose and live their Judaism.

What is the difference between being told to do something and choosing it?

“We explored Confirmation and choosing Judaism. Try at home: talk about something meaningful you’ve chosen to keep doing.”