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Bar Mitzvah simply means when a boy is 13 years old and reads from the Torah the first time before the assembled congregation--he joins the Jewish community.  That's it.  No parties, no celebrations, no nothing.  All the rest of it is bullshit that has been tacked on for social/cultural reasons which at this point only an insane person wouldn't recognize are completely antithetical to any notion of spirituality or meaning.

The only reason there is "years of schooling" is because the typical American Jew is "illiterate" in the Hebrew language and culture and has to be educated to a certain minimal level before going through this now-ostentatiously ridiculous ceremonial process.

Nevertheless the years of training is not actually a requirement.  [b]All that is required is turning age 13 and reading from the Torah before the congregation.[/b]

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But you can't read from the Torah before the congregation without years of training. That's true for every Jew everywhere, not just American Jews. You can't just go up there and start reading, no matter how fluent you are at reading Hebrew and how much you know about Jewish culture(s).[/quote]

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