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Bar Mitzvah

Many people nowadays know what does mean a ceremony of Bar Mitzvah: a neighbor, a relative, an invitation… you hear about it… And over the years, many now know the purpose of this ceremony. Really?!

Bar – which in Aramaic means son – and mitzvah – which in Hebrew and Aramaic translates into command. So the son of the commandment is leaning on the concept of appropriation of Jewish education, with the main cultural tool, all the principles of Jewish traditionalism.

During the ceremony of Bar Mitzvah, the young man of 13 who, in Jewish culture is already considered mature for the first time puts the tefillin, and also the first time, is called to the Torah reading. The same Torah that governed the behavior of the boy reaches the hands of man for its first reading.

It is confirmed then the trajectory of Jewish education: working and character development with the transmission of values and ethical behavior contained in the Talmud and Torah, coupled with the improvement of basic skills like reading, interpretation, writing, development of logical reasoning, etc.. Are some of the elements that pervade the 13 years of a young Jew.