What is a bar mitzvah? and what is a batmitzvah? And why is it important within the Jewish community?

Question

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Answer 1

It is the coming of age for Jewish boys and girls

13 for son's (Bar's) 12 for daughters Bat's and this marks the beginning of adulthood for Jew's where they are obliged to follow the commandments (Mitzvah) and take part in religious ceremonies.

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Answer 2

Bar Mitzvah, Bat Mitzvah and Confirmation


"Bar Mitzvah" literally means "son of the commandment." "Bar" is "son" in Aramaic, which used to be the vernacular of the Jewish people. "Mitzvah" is "commandment" in both Hebrew and Aramaic. "Bat" is daughter in Hebrew and Aramaic. (The Ashkenazic pronunciation is "bas")

Under Jewish Law, children are not obligated to observe the commandments, although they are encouraged to do so as much as possible to learn the obligations they will have as adults. At the age of 13 (12 for girls), children become obligated to observe the commandments. The Bar Mitzvah ceremony formally marks the assumption of that obligation, along with the corresponding right to take part in leading religious services, to count in a minyan (the minimum number of people needed to perform certain parts of religious services), to form binding contracts, to testify before religious courts and to marry.

A Jewish boy automatically becomes a Bar Mitzvah upon reaching the age of 13 years. No ceremony is needed to confer these rights and obligations. The popular bar mitzvah ceremony is not required, and does not fulfill any commandment. It is a relatively modern innovation, not mentioned in the Talmud, and the elaborate ceremonies and receptions that are commonplace today were unheard of as recently as a century ago.

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Answer 3

A bar mitzvah is a ceremony when a boy becomes a man in the Jewish faith. He is 13. A bat mitsvah is when a girl becomes a woman in the Jewish faith. She is usually 12.

Answer 4

Mitzvah means commandment.

Bar and Bat (Son and Daughter) are for males and females respectively.

It is their acceptance of their duty to follow the commandments given by God in the Torah, the five books of Moses. On that day, any breach of those commandments goes against their record, not their parents' record.

Answer 5

bar mitzvah is a kinda ceremony for boys a coming of age thing and a batmitzvah is 4 girls guessing its maybe the same kinda thing google it and find out more.

Answer 6

bat Mitzvah is for girls
bar Mitzvah is for boys

It is common in Jewish culture to celebrate the coming-of-age transition. In popular usage, the terms "Bar Mitzvah" and "Bat Mitzvah" are often mistakenly used to refer to the celebration itself; however the term actually refers to the boy or girl. The event is often misunderstood to be a rite of passage by which a Jewish boy or girl becomes a Jewish adult, but in fact it is merely a celebration of the adulthood that came about automatically by virtue of age. The ceremony itself does not change the status of the celebrant nor does it imbue any additional rights or responsibilities beyond those which were automatically imbued on a boy's 13th (or girl's 12th) birthday.

Jewish Boys

The current practice is that on a Shabbat shortly after his 13th birthday, a boy may recite the blessings for the Torah reading, read from the Torah (five books of Moses) and Haftara (Selections from the books of the Prophets), and give a d'var Torah, a discussion of that week's Torah portion. One may also lead part or all of the morning prayer services. Calling the boy to say the Torah blessings is called an aliyah (Hebrew: עֲלִיָּה, from the verb alàh, עָלָה, meaning, "to rise, to ascend; to go up"). Precisely what the Bar Mitzvah should lead during the service varies from one congregation to another, and is not fixed by Jewish law. The Sephardic Jews tend to bring the boy into adulthood a little later than Ashkenazi Jews, waiting until after their 14th birthday. Notwithstanding the celebrations, however, males become entirely culpable and responsible for following Jewish law at the age of 13.

Jewish Girls

The first public celebration of a Bat Mitzvah happened on March 18, 1922 at the Society for the Advancement of Judaism in New York City for Judith Kaplan, daughter of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan. As the ceremony became accepted for females as well as males, many women chose to celebrate the ceremony even though they were much older, as a way of formalizing and celebrating their place in the adult Jewish community.

Today, most non-Orthodox Jews celebrate a girl's becoming Bat Mitzvah in the same way as a boy's becoming Bar Mitzvah. All Reform and Reconstructionist, and most Conservative synagogues have egalitarian participation in which women read from the Torah and lead services. Conservative Judaism is pluralistic, and a small percent of Conservative synagogues are still concerned about the halakhic propriety of women reading the Torah portion in public. Many girls in the non-Orthodox movements celebrate becoming Bat Mitzvah at age 13, like the Jewish boys, rather than at the actual age 12.

Once a person is Bar or Bat Mitzvah, he or she has the responsibilities of an adult under Jewish law:

* He or she is not innocent anymore, and is responsible for his or her own actions (good or bad). Traditionally, the parents of the Bar or Bat Mitzvah give thanks to God that they no longer have to carry the burden of their child's sins.
* He or she is eligible to be called to read from the Torah, and to participate in a Minyan (In Orthodox sects, only males read from the Torah or participate in a Minyan).
* He or she is, in theory, legally old enough to be married according to Jewish law.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_mitzvah

Answer 7

In Judaeism, it signifies the coming of age, Bar-mitzvah at 13yrs for boys, and Bat-mitzvah at 12 yrs for girls. Bar meaning man, and bat meaning daughter and mitzvah meaning of the commandment, and once the appropriate age is reached, the individual is entitled to participate in all aspects of the faith and community life, and hold their own responsibility for ritual and tradition.

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Answer 8

A bar for boys bat for girlsthey read from the torah (its like a bible for christian people) then they have become a man or woman then if they r lucky somtimes u get a huge party!

Answer 9

bar is for boys, bat is for girls. It's when a boy becomes a man or a girl becomes a woman. Sort of like Confirmation in Christianity.

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Answer 10

I beleive that barmitzvah is the progression to adulthood for males and batmitzvah is for females. check wuth any Jewish org. or synagogue