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bar mitzvah
[ bahr mits-vuhor, Ashkenazic Hebrew bahr; Sephardic Hebrew bahr meets-vah ]
noun
- a solemn ceremony held in the synagogue, usually on Saturday morning, to admit as an adult member of the Jewish community a Jewish boy 13 years old who has successfully completed a prescribed course of study in Judaism.
- the boy participating in this ceremony.
verb (used with object)
- to administer the ceremony of bar mitzvah to:
Our son was bar mitzvahed at the family synagogue.
Bar Mitzvah
/ bɑː ˈmɪtsvə /
adjective
- (of a Jewish boy) having assumed full religious obligations, being at least thirteen years of age
noun
- the occasion, ceremony, or celebration of that event
- the boy himself on that day
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of bar mitzvah1
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of bar mitzvah1
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Example Sentences
There are kids who will have their bar mitzvah this year who never have lived through an October without the Dodgers in the playoffs.
We already know about the Minnesotan’s penchant for self-revision and self-destruction and the film includes a bar mitzvah photo in a secret scrapbook.
I had a comics-themed bar mitzvah, and Comic Con was that times a million.
I was once invited to a bar mitzvah on an Alaskan cruise to Alaska.
“If you go on YouTube, you can see on Letterman, David would cut me off, and go, ‘You mean it was the bar mitzvah from hell?’
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