Your B Mitzvah,
your voice — at 13 or any age.
A B Mitzvah isn't only for 13-year-olds. Many humanistic Jews grew up without one — and always wondered. This is a personal, one-on-one journey to claim it now, on your own terms. Culturally rich, thoroughly secular, entirely yours.
A journey you actually design.
No fixed curriculum, no memorization, no belief required. You choose the questions. Rabbi Chalom walks with you toward a ceremony that means something.
Choose your own topic
Torah passage, a moment in Jewish history, a person you admire, an ethical issue you care about — pick a text or a theme that speaks to you.
One-on-one with Rabbi Chalom
Weekly private sessions on Zoom (or in person in Deerfield, IL). Real conversation, real study, at a pace that fits your life.
Personalized Hebrew reading
Learn a Hebrew passage tied to your topic — read it for meaning, not performance. We meet you where you are.
Community service project
Do something in the world that matters to you. Your B Mitzvah year leaves a mark beyond the ceremony.
A day that sounds like you.
You co-design the ceremony with Rabbi Chalom — online, in Deerfield, IL, or hybrid so family across the world can attend. Bring your voice, your reading, your project, and the people who matter. That's the whole thing.
13 or 75 — welcome.
Grades 6–7 (ages 11–13)
A meaningful coming-of-age, threaded through the last two years of Online Sunday School. Small group study, plus one-on-one mentoring with Rabbi Chalom.
See the Sunday School track →Any age, anywhere in the world
Never had a B Mitzvah? Had one but wants a humanistic one on your own terms? This is for you. Many of our adult students are in their 30s, 50s, and 70s.
Ask about the adult program →Priced to the person, not the pew.
Our in-person B Mitzvah program at Kol Hadash is $2,500 total ($1,250 in each of 6th and 7th grade), and includes individual Hebrew tutoring, the B Mitzvah Prep Class with Rabbi Chalom, one-on-one speech-writing sessions, and a personalized ceremony you co-create with your family. Online tuition is comparable — we'll walk through the specifics in a free 30-minute consultation.
- Individual Hebrew tutoring (student chooses the reading)
- B Mitzvah Prep Class with Rabbi Adam Chalom, PhD
- 1:1 speech-writing sessions with the Rabbi
- Family-designed ceremony · special-needs students fully welcomed