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This month Jed Schwartz had his Bar Mitzvah. And, like many B’nai Mitzvah students, Jed gave a D’var Torah– speaking ...

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Although the bar/bat mitzvah meal is traditionally a seudat mitzvah--a meal with sacred status--extravagance has been rife for hundreds of years.

Creating a tallit (prayer shawl) or designing a bar/bat mitzvah invitation can add a meaningful personal dimension to the celebration.

Confirmation changed the requirements for Jewish "adulthood" by moving the focus from religious practice to doctrine.

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In rabbinic texts, the distinction between childhood and young adulthood is the birth of the yetzer hatov, the good inclination.