Today I Am a Woman: Stories of Bat Mitzvah around the World

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The community recognized her as "being of age" and acknowledged her in a public fashion. This would support more modern documents that record an Orthodox Jewish Italian rite for becoming bat mitzvah which involved an "entrance into the minyan" ceremony, in which boys of thirteen and girls of twelve recited a blessing since the midth century. Kaplan , who held the first public celebration of a bat mitzvah in the United States, for his daughter Judith, on March 18, , at the Society for the Advancement of Judaism , his synagogue in New York City.

At the time, most Orthodox rabbis strongly rejected the idea of a bat mitzvah ceremony. 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. Instead of reading from the Torah, some Humanist Jews prefer a research paper on a topic in Jewish history to mark their coming of age. The kibbutz movement in Israel also encouraged the celebration of the bar mitzvah. All those coming of age in the community for that year would take on a project and research in a topic of Jewish or Zionist interest.

Today many kibbutz children are opting for a more traditional bar mitzvah celebration. Among some Jews, a man who has reached the age of 83 will celebrate a second bar mitzvah, under the logic that in the Torah it says that a normal lifespan is 70 years, so that an year-old can be considered 13 in a second lifetime. A Bark Mitzvah is a pseudo-traditional observance and celebration of a dog's coming of age , [34] [35] as in the Jewish traditional bar mitzvah and bat mitzvah.

The term has been in use since at least as early as , [36] and Bark Mitzvahs are sometimes held as an adjunct to the festival of Purim. Bar or bat mitzvah celebrations have become an occasion to give the celebrant a commemorative gift. Traditionally, common gifts include books with religious or educational value, religious items, writing implements, savings bonds to be used for the child's college education , gift certificates, or money.

Monetary gifts in multiples of 18 are considered to be particularly auspicious and have become very common for the bar and bat mitzvah. Many b'nai mitzvah also receive their first tallit from their parents to be used for the occasion and tefillin where this is appropriate. Jewelry is a common gift for girls at a bat mitzvah celebration. Another gift for the bat mitzvah girl are Shabbat candlesticks because it is the duty and honour of the woman to light the candles.

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While the traditional age to hold a Bar or Bat mitzvah is 13 for boys and 12 or 13 for girls, some adults choose to have a Bar or Bat Mitzvah if they were unable to have them as children. Since the s, the Adult Bar and Bat Mitzvah have been growing in popularity. In honour and recognition of Jewish traditions, including Zeved habat and Bar and Bat Mitzvah, some Christians have begun to conduct a Bar and Bat Barakah ceremony to pronounce blessings upon their children.

Media related to Bar Mitzvah at Wikimedia Commons. Media related to Bat Mitzvah at Wikimedia Commons. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Bar and Bat Mitzvah Bar-Mitzvah ceremony at a reform synagogue. Etymology Who is a Jew? Jewish peoplehood Jewish identity. Tanakh Torah Nevi'im Ketuvim. Adult bar and bat mitzvah. Archived from the original on October 13, Archived from the original on September 27, In Singer, Isidore ; et al.

Retrieved Mar 7, A Guide to Contemporary Reform Practice. Archived from the original on April 20, I contacted friends of friends, relatives of relatives, friends of relatives, relatives of friends—one or two degrees of separation usually not six in action. I looked for websites that contained names and email addresses and wrote messages requesting participation. The authors generally emailed their contributions, which I edited and sent back for approval.

The majority also sent photos. Originally, I thought the book would contain just the stories and accompanying photos. At this point, Shula came on board as coeditor to help with the research and subsequent revisions. Judith had the first bat mitzvah in the United States in It was fascinating to hear intimate details of that day in New York City more than 80 years ago.

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The sisters told me that Judith had prepared for less than a week. I remember going up the stoop, and then you turned right, and there was a typical brownstone living room where my father held services. There was a platform at one end. I remember sitting there when she was called up to the platform to read.

As I understand now, it was the fact that she had an aliyah honor of going up to the dais that caused all the fuss. In , her family went into hiding in the country, and she hid her precious bat mitzvah photo album under the hay in the hayloft. When the Germans came looking for fugitives, they poked their bayonets into the hay. A few things surprised me: The book contains a photo from Croatia that shows girls at a group bat mitzvah in !