“The Bad Mitzvah”, is coming of age really that BAD?
<p>Coming of age is fun and stressful, especially when delivering the perfect speech that will capture such a significant and personal moment. Abigail is tasked with writing her bat mitzvah speech about the Red Heifer passage from the Tora, but the copy of her original speech is described as “sweet,” and that’s the last thing a ‘grown woman’ wants to hear. As time passes and the deadline for Abigail to deliver her speech approaches, she is faced with the anxiety to write the perfect speech about herself transforming into adulthood while trying to connect the dots to the metaphors of the red heifer.</p>
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