The Baha'i Studies Listserv Not necessarily. Being a bar or bat mitzvah means one is individually responsible for ones obedience or disobedience to the commandments. But that's not necessarily a condition for marriage. For example the father could marry off his daughter when she is young.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_marriage#In_Judaism On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Stephen Gray <[email protected]> wrote: > The Baha'i Studies Listserv > > Now, that Jews have the ritual of the Bat Mitzvah does that imply that the > marrying age has been raised to 12? The marrying age for men is 13 because > of the ritual of Bar Mitvah. It implies that a Jew can be married only after > they have gone through Bar/Bat Mitvah. > __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-543411-27401.54f46e81b66496c9909bcdc2f7987...@list.jccc.edu Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to [email protected] Or subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:[email protected] Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
