After these ceremonies Jewish boys or girls become responsible for living according to Jewish Law. At this point, each young person has to accept the law and its obligations, participate fully in services at the synagogue and set a good example for others. After the ceremony, a Jewish boy can be counted as part of a minyan , and in Reform synagogues girls who are Bat Mitzvah can also be counted.
The boy, who has prepared for the ceremony by spending a lot of time studying it, reads from the Torah. The boy puts on the tefillin for the first time. Jonathan D. Sarna does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. In my experience, many modern-day teens who gather for this ceremony have no idea what the word bar mitzvah means, nor how the ceremony they have come to observe evolved.
The term never once appears in the Hebrew Bible. But as an historian of Judaism , I know that rabbis and commentators have struggled with the question of why the age of 13 was actually chosen. Jewish Coming of Age.
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