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.
Solomon Luria (16th century) states that the bar mitzvah celebration was customary among Ashkenazim and that the boy was tutored to deliver a derashah (talmudic discourse) during the banquet (Yam shel Shelomo BK 7:37). It usually dealt with some aspect of the rite; Sephardim call it the tefillin derashah.