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Bar Mitzvah | August 25, 2004

Although the term Bar Mitzvah appears in the Talmud to designate one who is obliged to observe the law, its modern use does not appear before the fifteenth century. No reference to a special celebration for a girl, the Bat Mitzvah, is found before the nineteenth century, and this ceremony is observed far less frequently than Bar Mitzvah. The central element in the celebration is the calling up of the boy or girl to read the Torah in the Synagoge, usually on the first Sabbath after his or her thirteenth birthday.

Posted by admin at August 25, 2004 11:44 AM


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