Bar Mitzvah

Whitney McClain April10th, 2013 Religions 930-1045 Bar Mitzvah Party I chose to try and expect a Bar Mitzvah ceremony after your brief description of the solemnisation in class. I did not know anyone that was Jewish so I asked around my job. It just so happened that my co-worker was jewish and had a friends whose son was sack to have a cadence mitzvah. The ceremony was held at the group on okaloosa island. I did do some research so I was not totally ignorant of what was about to come and also to be expected of me.I did dress formally due to the fact the event was held at night At the beginning of the service Aaron the 13 year oldish son took the stage to prepare to read from the Torah. The elders were beside Aaron and began to then chant the develop before giving the spot light to him. They then passed the microphone and allow him read his chosen passage from the book. This only lasted for about six minutes. I found this to be interesting because the moment was so short provi ded would last a life time. It signified so much to a greater extent than the actual act of reading the torah.It was a moment of happiness of change state a man building up to all of which he had handy for and a moment of proudness for family and friends. After he was done reading his pitch we clapped, and sung in celebration. Some of Aarons friends begun to throw candy at him to be funny. They threw the candy somewhat harder than what I expected, but it was all fun and games and kinda mischievous. After the service was finished I watched everyone in the ceremony move with one another.Everyone was quite happy and it showed on their faces it was a high racy environment. The rest of the ceremony was the after party which I did not attend since I had to work in the morning. What I gathered from my experience I was that the Jewish religion seems like a very disciplined and tralatitious practice. Those aspects mean very much to them and has molded their society to what it is now. Everyone was put through and through certain steps and earned their way toward adulthood.I understand that before the bar mitzvah several things are required of them. They are put into inculcate and work to achieve or earn their celebration. I respected this because it gave them a good sense of their being. It instilled in the children what it is to become an adult. That things are not going to be handed to but earned and with that becomes responsibility. Now that Aaron is 13 he is seen to be old enough to follow the commandments, as an adult. I deliberate he intends to do so and follow his teachings.