However, the WIEGO network feels it is important to collect data on and distinguish between three categories of self-employed home-based workers â employers, own account workers, and contributing family workers â as well as the category of dependent home-based workers specified under âbâ above.
Bar Mitzvah literally means son of the commandment.. Bar is son in Aramaic, which used to be the vernacular of the Jewish people. Mitzvah is commandment in both Hebrew and Aramaic. Bat is daughter in Hebrew and Aramaic.
Thus bar mitzvah and bat mitzvah literally translate to son of commandment and daughter of commandment. However, in rabbinical usage, the word bar means under the category of or subject to. Bar mitzvah therefore translates to an [agent] who is subject to the law.