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    Grace
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    Any good ideas for bat mitzvah gifts aside from typical siddur, jewelry, gift certificate ideas? Something under $50, $60.

    #696131
    Ben Torah
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    A Happy 12th Birthday card from Hallmark.

    #696132
    blinky
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    I got a set of machzorim- very useful!

    #696133
    minyan gal
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    What about something that she may not have so much use for now but will later on in her life – like a beautiful mezzuzah, a chanukiyah or a pair of candlesticks.

    #696134

    well, do you know enough about the bas mitzvah girl to know her hobbies/likes/interests? that might make it easier, and you could make the gift more personal. if she likes music, maybe a cd or a gift certificate to a cd store. maybe she enjoys a good inspiring book.

    whatever you end up getting, don’t forget a gift receipt, just in case she has what you gave her already, or wtvr.

    #696135

    One gift I really liked from my bas mitzvah was a small leatherbound chamisha chumshei Torah with shacharis for Shabbos. It was great to take to shul on Shabbos because it had davening and parsha.

    A tehillim is also typical but you don’t mention that so I’m throwing that out here. It’s a very nice gift too.

    If she’s a reader, books make great gifts as well.

    #696136

    i know someno who got the Rashi Artscroll set of chumashim. THey were very happy with it. But the medium size sells for about 100. Personally i think something to do with learning and davening is more meaningful, especially as a bsa mitzva gift. For a regular birthday rollerblades are fine (just an example) but for a bas mitzva i’d do something more meaningful.

    #696137
    blinky
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    minyan- although its nice to get candlesticks those are likely to be her wedding gift! I would also say that a gift that she could use now is more practical. (don’t get me wrong u mentioned beautiful things)

    #696138
    apushatayid
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    A nice set of Ramban. Very practical. For the next 5 years, she will remember you every day as she has to memorize page after page in high school and seminary.

    #696139
    minyan gal
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    The reason I suggested a menorah or mezzuzah comes from personal experience. When my daughter had her Bat Mitzvah over 30 years ago, it was fashionable to use a gift registry at one particular gift shop. She chose, in my opinion, a bunch of chazereih. I gently suggested that perhaps she should also select a couple of more “mature” items and she grudgingly agreed. She received most of what she chose and number of pieces of gold jewellery – nothing expensive – a lot of fine gold chains – necklaces and bracelets. Eventually all of the jewellery broke and was lost and she lost interest in the teen-aged selections. However, when she married and left home she did take with her the lovely Chanukiyah she received and a collection of Boda glass animal figurines that she chose. From all of those gifts, the only ones that survived were the ones she could and does appreciate as an adult.

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    blinky
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    Oh thats special, I guess i thought wrong.

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