The night before Adam Pally’s bar mitzvah, his rabbi had some major concerns. Pally was so “unenthusiastic” about his chanting during his service rehearsal that the rabbi wasn’t sure if he was serious enough to pull off the ceremony. But Pally’s mother took matters into her own hands. “She took me to the mall and we went to this hot pretzel stand where you could get different cream cheeses to dip the pretzels in. I was kind of a chubby kid so I only got that for special occasions,” Pally tells me. “Then she took me to Sam Goody and she was like, ‘Pick out any three CDs you want.’ At the end she was like, ‘Did you have a nice night? I did this because I love you and I am begging you if you want
Another great one!