'Bar Mitzvah\r'

'Whitney McClain April10th, 2013 Religions 9:30-10:45 metre Mitzvah troupe I chose to try and attend a Bar Mitzvah observance after your brief interpretation of the festivity in class. I did non tell apart anyone that was Jewish so I asked around my job. It upright so happened that my co-worker was jewish and had a friends whose password was firing to have a bar mitzvah. The ceremony was held at the conference on okaloosa island. I did do some research so I was non totally ignorant of what was about to come and as well to be expected of me.I did dress formally payable to the fact the event was held at night At the beginning of the service Aaron the 13 year honest-to-god son took the stage to prepare to train from the Torah. The elders were beside Aaron and began to then chant the word before giving the mooring light to him. They then passed the microphone and let him read his chosen passage from the book. This only lasted for about vi minutes. I found this to be inte ride outing because the second gear was so short but would last a life time. It signified so much more than than the actual act of edition the torah.It was a routine of happiness of becoming a man build up to all of which he had trained for; and a moment of proudness for family and friends. After he was done reading his piece we clapped, and sung in celebration. Some of Aarons friends begun to draw off candy at him to be funny. They threw the candy about harder than what I expected, but it was all fun and games and or else mischievous. After the service was finished I watched everyone in the ceremony interact with one another.Everyone was quite apt and it showed on their faces it was a high spirited 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 religious belief seems like a very disciplined and traditionalistic practice. Those aspects mean very much to them and has molded their conjunction to what it is now. Everyone was put through certain steps and get their way toward adulthood.I understand that before the bar mitzvah several things are required of them. They are put into school and work to achieve or name their celebration. I respected this because it gave them a good gumption 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. right away that Aaron is 13 he is seen to be old enough to follow the commandments, as an adult. I believe he intends to do so and follow his teachings.\r\n'