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Definition of Bar mitzvah

1. Noun. (Judaism) an initiation ceremony marking the 13th birthday of a Jewish boy and signifying the beginning of religious responsibility. "A bar mitzvah is an important social event"

2. Verb. Confirm in the bar mitzvah ceremony, of boys in the Jewish faith.

Definition of Bar mitzvah

1. Noun. (Judaism) A Jewish coming of age ceremony. ¹

2. Noun. (Judaism) Someone who has come of age. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To initiate someone in a bar mitzvah ceremony ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Bar mitzvah

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Jewish Ceremonial Institutions and Customs by William Rosenau (1912)
"CHAPTER X bar mitzvah The thirteenth birthday of the Jewish boy is one of the most important events of his life. He is then considered as having attained ..."

2. Annual Convention by Central Conference of American Rabbis (1914)
"I, for one, am opposed to the inclusion of the bar mitzvah service in ... A few congregations may still have the bar mitzvah, but the great majority do not. ..."

3. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse by Joseph Friedlander, George Alexander Kohut (1917)
"To Walter Lionel de Rothschild on His Bar-Mitzvah ""THINE is the heritage of ancient birth, Age upon age hath dawned since first thy race Was cradled in the ..."

4. A Book of Jewish Thoughts by Joseph Herman Hertz (1922)
"1 In use in English Sephardi Congregations on the occasion of a lad reaching the age of thirteen—his religious majority (bar mitzvah). ..."

5. A Dictionary of Religion and Ethics by Shailer Mathews, Gerald Birney Smith (1921)
"bar mitzvah.—(Hebrew, "son of the commandment," ie, one to whom the ... On the first Sabbath after the thirteenth birthday, the bar mitzvah is called up to ..."

6. Year Book of the Central Conference of American Rabbis by Central Conference of American Rabbis (1914)
"I, for one, am opposed to the inclusion of the bar mitzvah service in ... A few congregations may still have the bar mitzvah, but the great majority do not. ..."

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