Special Dedication Thoughts And Ideas Popular Dedications Bar & Bat Mitzvah Portions (There are 54 throughout the Torah) A GREAT GIFT IDEA! Special Dedications Blessings to Children The Ten Commandments Shema Yisrael Shira – The Song at the Red Sea Chazak – The final verse of the Torah Birchat Kohanim – Priestly Blessings G-d’s Attributes of Mercy Chabad of Bradenton & Lakewood Ranch – CommUnity Torah 2 Table of Contents Popular Dedications ........................................................................................................................ 2 Bar & Bat Mitzvah Portions .................................................................................................................... 2 Special Dedications ......................................................................................................................... 2 Blessings to Children ............................................................................................................................... 2 The Ten Commandments ........................................................................................................................ 2 Shema Yisrael .......................................................................................................................................... 2 Shira – The Song at the Red Sea ............................................................................................................. 2 Chazak – The final verse of the Torah ..................................................................................................... 2 Birchat Kohanim – Priestly Blessings ...................................................................................................... 2 1 Special Themed Verses ............................................................................................................. 7 Animals ................................................................................................................................................. 7 Blessings ................................................................................................................................................ 7 2 Dedicate Special Career Verses ............................................................................................... 8 Accountant ............................................................................................................................................ 8 Artists .................................................................................................................................................... 8 Banking .................................................................................................................................................. 8 Building, Labor ..................................................................................................................................... 9 Business ................................................................................................................................................. 9 Cooking, Cooks, Food ....................................................................................................................... 10 Dance ................................................................................................................................................... 10 Dentist ................................................................................................................................................. 10 Dermatologist ..................................................................................................................................... 10 Doctors, Healing, Recovery .............................................................................................................. 10 Farming ............................................................................................................................................... 11 Gemologist .......................................................................................................................................... 11 Jeweler ................................................................................................................................................. 12 Judge, Justice, Law ............................................................................................................................. 12 Leadership .......................................................................................................................................... 13 Mathematician .................................................................................................................................... 13 Military ................................................................................................................................................ 13 Musician .............................................................................................................................................. 14 Occupational Therapy/Speech Therapist ...................................................................................... 14 Optometrist/Eye Doctor ................................................................................................................... 14 Chabad of Bradenton & Lakewood Ranch – CommUnity Torah 3 Podiatrist ............................................................................................................................................. 14 Retailing .............................................................................................................................................. 15 Teachers, Education, Learning ......................................................................................................... 15 Winemaker .......................................................................................................................................... 15 Work/Perseverance ........................................................................................................................... 15 3 Community................................................................................................................................ 16 Synagogue ........................................................................................................................................... 16 4 Environment.............................................................................................................................. 16 5 Family/Life Cycles ................................................................................................................... 18 Aging ................................................................................................................................................... 18 Birth ..................................................................................................................................................... 18 Brit Milah/Simchat Bat ..................................................................................................................... 18 Children ............................................................................................................................................... 19 Grandchildren .................................................................................................................................... 19 Great Grandchildren ......................................................................................................................... 19 Home ................................................................................................................................................... 19 Love ..................................................................................................................................................... 19 Men ...................................................................................................................................................... 20 Parenthood .......................................................................................................................................... 20 Pidyon HaBen ..................................................................................................................................... 20 Retirement ........................................................................................................................................... 20 Women ................................................................................................................................................ 20 6 Verses in Memory of Loved Ones ........................................................................................ 20 Genesis 23:2 (Death of Sarah) ........................................................................................................... 20 Genesis 49:31 (Death of Rebecca) ..................................................................................................... 21 Genesis 48:7 (Death of Rachel) ......................................................................................................... 21 Genesis 49:31 (Death of Leah) .......................................................................................................... 21 Genesis 25:8 (Death of Abraham) .................................................................................................... 21 Genesis 35:28-29 (Death of Isaac) ....................................................................................................