Bar Mitzvah

Also spelled  Bar Mitzva, or Mitzwa (Hebrew: “Son of the Commandment”),  plural  Bar Mitzvahs, Bar Mitzvot, or Bar Mitzwot,   Jewish religious ritual and family celebration commemorating the religious adulthood of a boy on his 13th birthday. The boy, now deemed personally responsible for fulfilling all the commandments, may henceforth don phylacteries (religious symbols worn on the forehead and left arm) during the weekday-morning prayers and may be counted an adult whenever 10 male adults