13. This is for a boy.
A bat mitzvah is for a girl, age twelve.
The Bar Mitzvah is done at age 13.
Jews celebrate a bar mitzvah when a boy turns 13 and becomes a official adult man/member of the community.
Most people everywhere celebrate it at 13 years old but I went to one person's when they were 12.
For the same reason as a boy's Bar Mitzvah - the passage of religious female adulthood.
Boys celebrate Bar Mitzvah's and girls celbrate Bat Mitzvah's.
Jewish boys have a Bar Mitzvah at 13 years as a rite of passage.
It is normally celebrated by the Bar Mitzvah boy (13 years old) is called up to read part or all of the weekly Torah portion in the synagogue. After that the family may chose to celebrate by having a party. For more info on Bar Mitzvah you can check out http://www.yourjewishspeech.com/bar-mitzvah
It is a Jewish ceremony to celebrate a young boy becoming an adult
coming of age its kind of like a bar mitzvah except for christians
A Jewish boy becomes a bar mitzvah on his 13th birthday. This does not require a formal ceremony. The ceremony people are most familiar with is to celebrate the boy becoming a bar mitzvah, it doesn't make him one.
The key player in the Bar Mitzvah boy is the 13 year old Jewish boy, his family and friends are invited to join in the celebration. For more info on Bar Mitzvah check out http://www.yourjewishspeech.com/bar-mitzvah
Yes! There are a number of reasons for having an adult Bar Mitzvah - you may not have celebrated it when you were a child, you may have converted in later years, or you may have experienced a spiritual awakening, and you want to mark your commitment to the Jewish people again - as a mature adult. You can have a bar/bat mitzvah at any age, although there is a custom to have a second bar mitzvah at age 73.
Bar mitzvah literally translates as 'son of mitzvah'. This is when a male Jew is considered old enough to take on the religious responsibilities of an adult male. According to Judaism, 13 is when a boy is old enough to take on these responsibilities and he is a bar mitzvah on his 13th birthday.