Judaism
Bar Mitzvah-What is it?
Monday, June 23rd, 2008What is a Bar Mitzvah?
Author: Jacob Lumbroso
Ancient Jewish texts convey the idea that along with puberty comes responsibility for one’s own actions. The idea of accountability, goes back even further. Samuel ha-Kaman (i.e.the small) wrote at the close of the first century that the completion of the thirteenth year marks the age for responsibility to [...]