Question: How can a 12/13-year-old be considered an adult? What actually happens at the age of 12/13? Please answer in great detail. Thank you. Answer: The age of 12 (for… Read more »
Category: Bar mitzvah
Can a 13 year old boy or 12 year old girl make Kiddush for Mother
Question: Presume that the Mother does not say maariv and that no other male is available to make kiddush on Friday night. Does a young teenager have to be inspected to see… Read more »
Bar Mitzvah
What is required for a bar-mitzvah? Answer: When a person becomes bar mitzvah, the most important thing is that he begins performing the mitzvos of the Torah. Therefore, his parents… Read more »
Day of Bar Mitzvah
If a boy is born on the 1st of Kislev (during the day), does he become Bar Mitzvah on the 1st or 2nd of Kislev (13 years later)? Answer: He… Read more »
Thirteen for Bar Mitzvah of Adopted Son
In the case of an adopted boy coming the age of 13. What determines his age of 13. Do we go after his actual birthday, his bris milah, or his… Read more »
Baruch Sheptarani for Women (and for single mother)
Is there a reason for the mother of a Bar Mitzvah to ask someone to recite sheptorani (the father is not Jewish)? Some hold that the grandfather may say sheptorani… Read more »
Bar Mitzvhah/Yartzeit on Adar
The rama seemingly contradicts himself in certain halachas during adar aleph and adar beis. He writes a bar mitzva boy isn’t barmitzvah untill the date in Adar 2 but a… Read more »
Leining on the day one becomes Bar Mitzvah
Does a bar mitzvah boy get an aliyah and possibly lein on the actual day of his birthday (if it falls on a Leining day of the week) or does… Read more »
Practising Bar Mitzvah boy
1)Can a Sefer Torah be taken out of the aron kodesh so that a bar mitzva boy can practice the leining (in order simulate the environment that he will be… Read more »