In a message dated 1/26/2005 10:51:43 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So is there some powerful significant moral change which happens at
15? Or is the year just arbitrary?

Peace

Gilberto
It is also the age of maturity for responsibility for the fast and daily prayers, not just marriage. By pinning it to calendar age it removes  the inequity of waiting for first menses or nocturnal emission, if nothing else.
 
 
Scott
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