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The bar mitzvah ceremony is medieval, but a bar mitzvah blessing appears nearly a millenium earlier.

A family educator offers words of advice to the family.

The terms

Reaching the age of majority was not always a requirement for commandments such as being called up to the Torah.

How Old is Old Enough?

Contemporary Bar/Bat Mitzvah Issues. The Bar / Bat Mitzvah Celebrarion. Jewish Coming of Age. Jewish Lifecycle

Age and its significance, terminology, parents' blessing, parent-child dynamics, and motivations for adult bar/bat mitzvah.

Deuteronomy's laws of warfare include the requirement that a nation seek a peaceful settlement before engaging in war.

Establishing a new program of Jewish resistance.

The Bible has a number of models for nonviolent resistance.

Deuteronomy 20 permits wars of aggression, but the talmudic rabbis made it difficult to declare one.

An incomplete lifecycle process or an unsuitable attitude may exempt you from service.