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Pronunciation: [bˈɑː mˈɪtsvə] (IPA)

Bar mitzvah is a Jewish religious ceremony celebrated when a boy turns 13 years old and is recognized as an adult in the community. There are several synonyms for this term, such as "bat mitzvah" for girls, "b'nei mitzvah" for plural, and "confirmation" for some non-Orthodox Jews. In Orthodox Judaism, a boy's transition to adulthood is marked by tefillin, which involves the wrapping of leather straps around the arm and knotting them to each finger. "Becoming a man" ceremony, another synonym, includes various modern rituals, such as taking on new responsibilities and learning Jewish history and laws. The celebration of this milestone typically includes a religious service, festive meal, and dance party.

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  • I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.
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  • Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
    R. L. Stine
  • That room was not available, and the only other room had been booked for a Jewish bar mitzvah. I called the father and told him I needed the room and I would pay him to move the bar mitzvah to an adjoining room which was smaller.
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  • This is the great day. This is the greatest event in all the history of the human race, up to this time. That is — today is New Year's Day of the Year One. If we don't change the calendar, historians will do so. The human race — this is our change, our puberty rite, bar mitzvah, confirmation, from the change of our infancy into adulthood for the human race. And we're going to go on out, not only to the Moon, to the stars; we're going to spread. I don't know that the United States is going to do it; I hope so. I have — I'm an American myself; I want it to be done by us. But in any case, the human race is going to do it, it's utterly inevitable: we're going to spread through the entire universe.
    Robert A. Heinlein

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