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Definition:
In Judaism, a bar mitzvah is a religious ceremony performed for a boy who
has reached the age of thirteen. On the Sabbath immediately following that birthday,
he is called upon to be one of the seven men who read that week's selection from
the Torah or as the eighth man who reads from the Haphtarah (prophetic lesson).
The term comes from the Hebrew words bar, which means son, and mitzvah, which means command.
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