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The Bar Mitzvah is important to Jews because it is when a Jewish boy is old enough to take on the religious responsibility of an adult.
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The Bar Mitzvah is a Jewish ceremony that dates to the 13th century and confirms that a Jewish boy has come of age and should be seen as an adult in the community. The celebration of coming of age remains an important rite in Judaism.
The literal meaning of bar mitzvah is "The age of law", which means that from this age on the young adult is obligated in all the laws of Judaism. For boys this is the age of 13 (bar mitzvah) and for girls 12 (bas mitzvah).
Bar Mitzvah gifts are not important at all. They serve to show the boy that he is loved (or girl, if it's a bat mitzvah), but they are optional.
Jews celebrate a bar mitzvah when a boy turns 13 and becomes a official adult man/member of the community.
They read from the Torah for the very first time.
If youre a boy, your bar Mitzvah!! if youre a girl you do it at 12 and its called a bat Mitzvah! biggest celebration of every Jews life bigger than a wedding
At age 13, a Bar Mitzvah boy becomes a man in the religious sense.
They have Bar Mitzvah ceremonies for boys & Bat Mitzvah ceremonies for girls.
Confirmation is completely unrelated to a bar mitzvah. A bar mitzvah is simply a Jewish boy's 13th birthday at which point he is considered old enough to take on the religious responsibilities of a Jews adult such as publicly reading from the Torah and fasting.
Jews do indeed wear special things after the bar Mitzvah, depending on the day of the week the bar Mitzvah is on. Mon-Wednesday they wear a dinosaur costume, and the other days of the week they have to wear a chicken mask at all hours of the day until they can recite the purple Irishman's code by heart.