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Mazel Tov - on your Bar/Bat Mitzvah
A religious initiation ceremony performed for those of the Jewish faith, for a boy (bar mitzvah) or girl (bat mitzvah) who has reached the age of thirteen.
13 is the age (according to religious law)at which a child becomes an adult and responsible for her/his moral and religious duties.
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Indeed. Is wordsmith.org male or female?
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As was pointed out, there are no google hits for this word, nor was there a quote illustrating it. However, as of this morning the word was added to wiktionary (I love the internet) with by the following quotation:
1856 William Robertson - The History of the Discovery and Settlement of America
The order of days in every month was computed, according to him, first by what he calls a tridecennary progression of days from one to thirteen, . . .
See <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tridecennary>.
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No matter the sex of the word , we should all say HAPPY 13th Birthday to ANU. Mybe we can say that AWAD is having it's Bar MItzvah!
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No matter the sex of the word , we should all say HAPPY 13th Birthday to ANU. Mybe we can say that AWAD is having it's Bar MItzvah! Hence my question. Bar or Bat?
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well, Anu is male, so Bar, no?
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if a man builds a ship, is it a necessarily a he?
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Is the shipbuilder Jewish?
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if a man builds a ship, is it a necessarily a he?
-joe (hms) friday Thank you. Somebody understands me....
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I understood you, just answered in a way that you didn't get the answer you thought you wanted.
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