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Why is bar mitzvah or bas mitzvah signifigant in the life of a young Jewish person?
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Who might experience a bat mitzvah?
A young Jewish girl
How do Jewish celebrat adolescence?
They have Bar Mitzvah ceremonies for boys & Bat Mitzvah ceremonies for girls.
What is the Jewish ceremony that takes place when a young Jewish man enters adulthood?
Bar Mitzvah at age 13
What is bar mitzvah ceremony?
It is a Jewish ceremony to celebrate a young boy becoming an adult
Why do Bar Mitzvahs happen?
The Bar Mitzvah is the marking point of adulthood in a Jewish boy's life.
What is the Jewish ceremony called when young boys join the synagogue?
The Jewish ceremony when young boys join the synagogue is called a Bar Mitzvah (for boys) or a Bat Mitzvah (for girls). It is a significant milestone in Jewish tradition where the individual takes on new responsibilities and is considered an adult within the community.
What should a young man wear to his bar mitzvah?
Most Jewish males wear a suit and tie to their Bar Mitzvah. Additionally, Jewish males are required by religious tradition to wear both the kippa and the talit.
What ceromony is celebrates young Jewish children becoming adults?
The Bar or Bat Mitzvah. Bar is for boys, Bat is for girls.
What happens after bar or bat mitzvah?
The young person is from that time obligated by the Torah commands.
What is bah mitzvah?
The phrase is 'bat mitzvah'. Bat mitzvah, which means 'daughter of mitzvah' is what a Jewish girl is called on her 12th birthday. This means that she is considered ready to take on the religious responsibilities of a Jewish adult. This is often accompanied by a religious ceremony that is referred to as the bat mitzvah ceremony.
Do you have to be Jewish to have a Bat mitsvah?
Yes, you do have to be Jewish to have a Bat Mitzvah (and female for that matter). A Bat Mitzvah literally means "daughter of the commandments," the only people who are "required" to fulfill the commandments are Jewish people. That said, not all Jewish people fulfill all of the commandments and therefore over time, the Bat Mitzvah has come to mean a coming of age ceremony for a Jewish child. This child/young adult is now ready to take his or her place in the community as an adult. This means, being counted as part of a minyan (10 people to complete a congregation at a specific service); she is now required to fast on Fast Days (Yom Kippor for instance) and other requirements. A non-Jew can certainly do the same studying as a Jewish person but they cannot complete the formal training. For example, generally, though not always, a Bat Mitzvah reads from Torah, a non-Jew cannot read from the Torah. A Bat Mitzvah will finish a prayer by saying the Chatimah (which seals the prayer) a non-Jewish person cannot do this in the name of a Jewish community. Just like Jewish people cannot take part in certain aspects of a non-Jewish service, it is also true that a non-Jew cannot take part in all parts of a Jewish service.
What happens after the bar mitzvah's ceremony?
The person becomes a man. According to Jewish law he has responsibilities in the community that he didn't have before. He can help to make up a quorum of congregants in prayer, he needs to fast on the fast days, he can read from the Torah in the synagogue.
