Bat Mitzvah – Religious Coming of Age Ceremony for Girls in Judaism
Author: Womens UN Report Network
Date: February 12, 2006
participate in religious services in these ways, so a bat mitzvah, if celebrated
at all, is usually little more than a party. In other movements of Judaism, the
girls do exactly the same thing as the boys.”
commandments. The bar mitzvah ceremony formally marks the assumption of that
obligation, along with the corresponding right to take part in leading religious services, to count
in a minyan (the minimum
number of people needed to perform certain parts of religious services), to form
binding contracts, to testify before religious courts and to marry.”
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