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The bar mitzvah ceremony has been taking place for over 3,000 years but I doubt very much if anyone has ever actually found a disadvantage. I've attended many, including my own, and all I've ever seen and experienced is love and happiness.
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A Bat Mitzvah is typically celebrated when a young girl turns 12, the Jewish age of maturity for women. As for the actual celebration, it usually happens during the Shacharit (Morning) Service on Shabbat (Saturday).
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The minimum number of people required for any public prayer service is 10, but there is no maximum. Any number of people can go to a bar Mitzvah.
at age 13 or later for boys. At age 12 or later for girls. Many adult Jews who never had a bar or bat mitzvah as a child now have them as adults.
The Beany or skull cap worn by many Jewish men, and boys at Bar Mitzvah may also be known as a yarmulke, kippah or kappel.
Not at all. Bat Mitzvah and Bar Mitzvah are both social functions rather than spiritual ones. The ceremonies are societal, helpful for the families involved.
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A bar mitzvah meal is not a religiously prescribed meal such as the seder which is part of Passover, however, a bar mitzvah generally does include a party, so people do indulge in a feast of some kind.
Before my bat mitzvah, I studied with my mother. Many people get a teacher or hire a rabbi to do it. I prepared a long speech on some commentaries in the Torah.