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Weddings & B'nai Mitzvah

A chuppah under the palms, a Torah carried across the grass, and a rabbi who will actually know your family.

A Bar/Bat Mitzvah is a significant milestone for both your child and family. The success of making it a sacred event is in the details, whether you want a small affair, an extravagant banquet or a trip to Israel. We are here to work directly with your family. Let our team utilize our experience, knowledge and expertise to help your family craft your celebration. Let us bring your vision to life and create a memorable and sacred family event.

What we do alongside your family

For your child

Individualized Bar Mitzvah & Bat Mitzvah tutoring

Preparation is one-to-one and paced to the child. The goal is a young person who understands what they are reading, not one who has memorised it.

Tutoring

One-to-one, in person or online

For the day itself

Event Planning

Bar and Bat Mitzvah kiddush, catering and service planning.

Planning

Kiddush · catering · service

For couples

Jewish Weddings

Rabbi Baruch has been officiating weddings in South Florida for over twenty-five years. Ceremonies at Liumi are built around your family rather than a template: how much Hebrew, how much explanation, how much ritual is entirely yours to decide. Many couples hold the ceremony outdoors here and stay for the party on the same grass; others marry elsewhere and come to us only for the preparation and the officiating.

Officiant

Rabbi Baruch Plotkin · 561-929-9892

The days themselves

The chuppah on the grassChairs set out under the oaks, the aisle running out to the canopy.

At the tableThe reading, with three generations leaning in.

The bimahHis portion, his microphone, the whole school listening.

Under the canopyWhite drapes, greenery, and an old tree doing the rest.

His brothers and his sisterThe hug nobody had to ask for.

Straight into the dancingOut from under the chuppah and into the tent.

Over the scrollThe cabin through the tent flap, the chumash open on the velvet.

Everyone who came for himOut on the path, before the tent fills up.

The moment it landsEverybody laughing at once, which is the point.

Or somewhere else entirelyA tallit for a chuppah, the water for a backdrop, and Rabbi Baruch under it.

The horaSomebody always ends up on the floor.

Under the tentFamily in front, everyone else close behind.

Between one job and the nextSomebody is always carrying something.

After darkString lights, palms, and the water holding all of it.

Their friends, on the floorSat down for exactly one song.

Green on greenOrchids and moss in a wooden crate, on lime linen.

The tent at nightLit up at the end of the drive, audible from the road.

Ten quiet minutesThe part of the day nobody schedules and everybody remembers.

The photograph on the wallThe one the family keeps.

The partyBalloons, lights, and a floor that fills up early.

Lunch afterwardsOne long table, and every hand in the air.

With the warmth and tradition that Rabbi Baruch and Shayndel and the Liumi team bring to everything, we want to make your sacred moments memorable and magical together.

A film from Spencer Sokoloff's bar mitzvah celebration.

Our B'nai Mitzvah program is a holistic approach, framed by Torah (study), avodah (prayer), and gemilut chassidim (acts of loving-kindness). It symbolizes the affirmation of your family's commitment to Jewish community and education. It is an exhilarating moment in a journey of learning, spiritual growth, and commitment to Mitzvoth, the Jewish people and the Land of Israel.

Our goal is that children will continue to build on their foundation of Jewish education, participate in meaningful ritual and prayer experiences, and discover that they have the ability and responsibility to make an impact on our world.

Our Liumi team is eager to work together with your family to build the foundations for this wonderful lifecycle experience.

Tell us what you are planning

Weddings, b’nai mitzvah, or something we have not thought of. We will come back to you.

Come as you are. Belong as you are.

No pressure. No religious prerequisites. No need to know anyone before you arrive.

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