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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2012-08-29 06:26 pm

[ SECRET POST #2066 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2066 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2012-08-30 07:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm just gonna come in for a second on the Bar/Bat Mitzvah thing. There is a very often promoted idea that becoming Bar Mitzvah is a ceremonial rite of passage and that doing so affirms your Jewishness. No.

Becoming Bar Mitzvah automatically happens when a Jewish girl turns 12 and a Jewish boy turns 13. That's all you have to do -- survive to that birthday. Reading from the Torah for the first time isn't even necessary, and neither is the big party (though there's nothing wrong with that making the occasion special like that). Becoming Bar/Bat Mitzvah simply means you have reached the age in which you are formally considered an adult of the community. Your sins no longer go on your parents' record but your own now.

A Bar Mitzvah party is just that -- a party. It's nice if you the Bar/Bat Mitzvah kid can read from the Torah, but it's not necessary. If you are someone without a formal conversion or Jewish mother, you are simply someone that turned 12 or 13 and had a party.