Shabbat bar mitzvah in Jerusalem
The aliyah is at the Kotel. The meals and the beds are in the Jewish Quarter. We've lived in the Rova for forty years and we arrange the whole Shabbos. Your family sleeps in apartments here, 5–7 minutes' walk from the Kotel, and the seudos are in a hall or on a roof with local mehadrin catering.
The aliyah
You choose where your son is called up. We take care of the rest.
One of our people goes down before davening, sets up a bima in a quiet corner and puts out chairs. If your son isn't leining himself, a baal koreh comes. A small family joins an existing minyan by the mechitzah, so the women can see too.
There are several shuls in the Quarter. For Sephardim, mostly Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai. We know the gabbai there and arrange the aliyah and the seats with him in advance.
The weekend
The seudos
The food is cooked by a frum family from the Rova with twenty years of Shabbosim and simchas behind them. It's home cooking, fresh and really good, and the portions are generous. Nobody gets up from the table hungry. The hechsher is Badatz Eidah HaChareidis, and for the meat you choose Badatz, Rubin or Sheiris. A waiter stays with you all Shabbos and serves.
In the penthouse, or on the roof looking over the Old City.
A hall in the Rova closed to everyone but you, a few minutes' walk from the apartments.
Prices
For the meals: challah, grape juice and drinks are included. Per-person prices are event prices, from 60 guests; below that there is a ₪6 supplement per person. A small family orders by the dish, priced by the size of the order. The hall is priced by the number of guests. Prices are correct for November 2026.
Questions
Apartments for Shabbat, Friday to Motzei Shabbos: from ₪1,000 for a couple, about ₪3,000 for a large 4-room apartment, and from ₪7,000 for large luxury apartments. The meals are on the price list above, and the hall is priced by the number of guests.
By your son's Hebrew birthday and the parsha. You can know it a year ahead. Book the apartments and the hall early, because Shabbatot in season go fast.
Families who want pictures bring a photographer on Friday before Shabbos, at the Kotel and in the lanes of the Quarter. We're happy to recommend one.
On Friday there is a cart from the car park to the door. Two of the apartments have no steps at all.
The menu and the number of covers are confirmed by the Wednesday before Shabbos.
For the meals: up to 20 in the penthouse or on the roof, and up to 200 in a hall. For sleeping: the penthouse takes eight, and there are more apartments in the Rova depending on the size of your family.
Yes. Plenty of families from Jerusalem and nearby do not stay over. We arrange the aliyah, the hall and the food, without the apartments.
Of course. Anyone who lives close by walks over for davening and the seudah. Tell us how many are coming and we will keep places for them at the table.
By midday, so you can settle in calmly before Shabbos. In winter Shabbos comes in early, so come earlier.
The food arrives on Friday before Shabbos, and the waiter who stays with you makes sure everything is served hot at every meal.
If your son wants to lein himself, wonderful. If not, we bring a baal koreh, paid separately.
You join an existing minyan at the Kotel, by the mechitzah. That way the women see the aliyah up close too.
In the Rova, in the hall, a few minutes’ walk from the Kotel.
Yes, the Rova has a mehudar eruv. You can carry and push a stroller on Shabbos.
One car, space permitting. Other guests park on Mount Zion, and from there or from the Quarter car park a cart brings them to the door.
Yes, in the hall. It is customary to finish about two hours after Shabbos ends.
Who we are
We've lived in the Rova for forty years and we know the people here: the gabbaim, the hall owners and the kitchen. For years we ran an event equipment rental business and worked with dozens of caterers. If you have an idea that isn't on this page, write to us.
Where you sleep
Large apartments, 5–7 minutes' walk from the Kotel.
Get in touch
Send us the parsha or the date and how many you are, and we'll come back to you with a proposal.
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