Bencher for Bar Mitzvah, Tefillin Design Laminated Bi-Fold #152

Design #152 carries a tefillin illustration across the cover of a laminated two-fold bencher, printed at 4.5 by 6.25 so it lies flat at a place setting without crowding the plate. The lamination is what separates it from an ordinary paper bencher — it comes through a long seudah, a spilled cup and the ride home in a jacket pocket still looking like it did on the table.

Inside is the full birchas hamazon together with al hamichya, so one booklet covers the meal and the mezonos and cake that follow it. Order it in Nusach Ashkenaz or Eduth Mizrach according to your crowd; when the mechutanim daven differently, plenty of families take both and set one nusach per table. Benchers go out by the box for a bar mitzvah, so count your seats, then add a stack for the shul kiddush and for the boys who will take one home.

Because the cover is about the tefillin rather than about a particular hall or color scheme, it reads as a bar mitzvah bencher wherever the seudah lands, and the bochur is left with a keepsake he actually uses at the Shabbos table afterward.

• Malchut design #152
• Nisuch: Ashkenaz, Eduth Mizrach

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