Bar & Bat Mitzvah

What is the deeper significance behind the Jewish adolescent rite of passage? Insights... Resources and tools... Special milestones.

Wondering what day you are going to be Bar/Bat Mitzvah or have you forgotten the exact day that you became Bar or Bat Mitzvah? Use our Bar/Bat Mitzvah date finder to discover it.

How can a 12 or 13 year old be considered an adult? What suddenly happens at age 12/13?

A child is a child. Perhaps bright and knowledgeable—yet still lacking the maturity that distinguishes the adult from the child. Around the age of 12 for a girl, 13 for a boy, that sense begins to kick in.

"You get a comfortable salary, full health benefits, free day care and spa privileges, 31 days annual paid vacation. You have no duties and responsibilities -- you don't even have to come to work." Would you want this job?

Why do we become a bar mitzvah at adolescence? Because something dramatic happens to our minds at this time: A sort of awakening, a consciousness, a realization that "I exist"

Why would an irrational, irresponsible and legally questionable act serve as the precedent by which to measure reasonability and legal responsibility?

May G-d grant success to all the Bar and Bat Mitzvahs. On one’s birthday, one is born anew; may it be with new Mazel in Torah, Mitzvos and all areas of your lives. Every Bar and Bat Mitzvah resolves to constantly grow especially in the commandment to ...

Question: My son is turning thirteen in January of next year. My daughter will become twelve two months later. We would like to have a joint celebration for their bar and bat mitzvah. Can either my son's bar mitzvah be delayed, or can my daughter's bat ...

Sometimes I wonder at the puny specimens passing themselves off as Bar Mitzvah boys. How, by any stretch of the imagination, can they be described as having reached adulthood?