mitzvah

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Jacobs: I started my first business when I was 23 years old in 1979 with $5,000 left over from my bar mitzvah money, and that business grew to a billion dollars.

From MarketWatch • May 6, 2026

At 10, I was sent to Hebrew school, for an hourlong session four days a week, in preparation for my bar mitzvah.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

Bandel came with his entire family to celebrate his grandson's upcoming bar mitzvah, the Jewish coming-of-age ritual.

From Barron's • Apr. 9, 2026

My brother had his bar mitzvah at the mountaintop fortress of Masada overlooking the Dead Sea.

From Salon • Nov. 30, 2025

And as for making an idiot out of myself, I took care of that long before the bar mitzvah could even get started.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman