RLST 210 Lecture 16: RLST 10:14 Unit 2

• School: Towson University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RLST 210
• Professor: Deborah Barer

Document Summary

Birth : receiving a circumcision or ceremony of having a daughter. Bar mitzvah/bat mitzvah : ritual that you go through in which reading from the torah is performed, bar mitzvah occurs at age 13, bat mitzvah occurs at age 12. Graduation : receiving a degree, change in your life acknowledged by yourself and other people. Marriage : ceremony that expresses the bond between two people, change in social status among the society. Having children : l"dor vador, continuing the generations. Birth : a ceremony to welcome the baby into the jewish people, for a boy . Circumcise foreskin on the eighth day for any male. Talks about marriage canopy: so that eventually that kid will have children, generation to generation. Three pillars of having a good life: learning torah, doing good deeds, entering the marriage canopy. Ritual name: hebrew name, son of, father"s hebrew name, for a girl . Simchat bat (the joy of a daughter)