Text: Bar and Bat Mitzvah

Floor 1 Floor 1
Foundations in Jewish identity (1.3) Foundations in Jewish identity (1.3)
Exhibit 1.3.17.01 Exhibit 1.3.17.01

Text Panel

“When she reaches the age of twelve years and one day and he reaches the age of thirteen years and one day […] they are old enough for all the mitzvot”
Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chayim, Siman 616

Themes and Connections:

bar mitzva, bat mitzvah, Orach Chayim, quates, Shulchan Aruch

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