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bar mitzvah [or] bar mizvah

 
pronunciation:
bar mIts v
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part of speech: noun
definition: a Jewish ceremony that celebrates a boy becoming an adult and the beginning of his religious duties. The bar mitzvah usually takes place when the boy is thirteen years old.
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