By David Levin-Kruss, Yesod Europe Jewish Learning Director How are the following similar? Going into the wilds by oneself to catch and kill an animal. Leaving university for one’s first job. Having a bar/bat mitzvah. All are times where one leaves one way of being and joins another. In example #1, the usually young man proves he is worthy to be an elder in the tribe. In example #2, a person stops being a student and takes on a new identity by being associated with a particular organization or company. And in #3, the child becomes an adult member of the