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.
The bar mitzvah ceremony was developed as a public recognition of a legal and religious status, attained with or without the ritual. In other words, a Jewish boy of 13 years and one day automatically became a bar mitzvah even if no public ceremony took place. While the beginnings of the modern bar mitzvah ceremony appeared as early as the sixth century C.E., it was not until the Middle Ages that a fully developed ritual emerged. By the 13th or 14th century, the custom of calling a boy up to the Torah was established as the way of recognizing entry into manhood.