bat mitzvah

plural bat mitzvahs · plural b'not mitzvah · alternative bat-mitzvah · alternative bas mitzvah · alternative bath mitzvah · alternative batmitzvah

1. JudaismA Jewish coming of age ceremony for a girl.

   Near-synonym: sweet thirteen

   Synonyms: sweet thirteen

2. JudaismA girl who has come of age.

present singular third person bat mitzvahs · participle present bat mitzvahing · participle past bat mitzvahed · past bat mitzvahed · alternative bat-mitzvah · alternative bas mitzvah · alternative bath mitzvah · alternative batmitzvah

1. transitiveTo initiate (someone) in a bat mitzvah ceremony.

   Though I was bat mitzvah’d, my parents always made it clear that they weren’t big proponents of organized religion either. But being Jewish was still woven into the fabric of my upbringing with rituals, family history and core values.

   2022 October 1, Jessica Grose, “Teaching My Kids How to Be Jewish, One Plate of Apples at a Time”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 05 Nov 2022

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   Passing the Congregation Shearith Israel on Central Park West[…], Professor Solanka scurrying through the downpour remembered the newly bat-mitzvahed thirteen-year-old girl he’d glimpsed through the side door, waiting knife in hand for the ceremony of the blessing of the bread.

   2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 5