Becoming a Bat Mitzvah happens to a Jewish girl on her 12th birthday. She enters the sacred space of adulthood in respect to now being responsible for her own spiritual opportunities to connect with the Divine and to be accountable to the commandments. She’s being lighting Shabbat candles for quite some time, and she has watched me make challah and joined me in braiding it too. This challah bake wasn’t about a big party, a big spectacle but the grounding of ritual, connection and prayer. But thi