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Confirmation is a Reform-originated ceremony for boys and girls that is tied to the Jewish holiday of Shavout. It constitutes an individual and group affirmation of commitment to the Jewish people. Confirmation, one of the “youngest” Jewish life cycle ceremonies, began less than 200 years ago. Most scholars attribute the creation of confirmation to Israel Jacobson, a wealthy German businessman and a nominal “father” of Reform Judaism.

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Under Jewish Law, children are not required to observe the commandments, but they are motivated to do so as much as they can to learn the task they will have as adults. At the age of 13 for boys or 12 for girls, children become required to  abide by the commandments. The bar mitzvah ceremony formally, and publicly marks the assumption of that requirement, along with the corresponding right to take part in leading religious services

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In Judaism, life is valued more than anything else. The Talmud notes that all people are descended from a single person, thus taking a single life is like destroying an entire world.Judaism not only allows, but most of the time requires a person to violate the commandments if it saves a life.Of the 613 commandments, only a few commandments are prohibited from being broken so you can save a life.  A person who is extremely sick, for example, or a woman in labor, is not allowed to fast on Yom Kippur, because fasting then would endanger their life. Doctors are permitted to answer emergency calls on Shabbat, even though this may break many Shabbat prohibitions.

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Immediately after birth, a woman is considered niddah and is separated from her husband for 7 days after the birth of a boy, and 14 days after the birth of a girl. No reason is stated why the time waited is longer for a female child than for a male child; however a female child is not more defiling than a male child, because the method of purification at the end of this period is the same for both genders.

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Traditional Judaism firmly believes that death is not the end of human existence. However, because Judaism is primarily focused on life here and now rather than on the afterlife, Judaism does not have much dogma about the afterlife, and leaves a great deal of room for personal opinion. It is possible for an Orthodox Jew to believe that the souls of the righteous dead go to a place similar to the Christian heaven, or that they are reincarnated through many lifetimes, or that they simply wait until the coming of the messiah, when they will be resurrected. Likewise, Orthodox Jews can believe that the souls of the wicked are tormented by demons of their own creation, or that wicked souls are simply destroyed at death, ceasing to exist.

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In Judaism, death is not a tragedy, even when it occurs early in life or through unfortunate circumstances. Death is a natural process. Our deaths, like our lives, have meaning and are all part of God's plan. In addition, we have a firm belief in an afterlife a world to come, where those who have lived a worthy life will be rewarded.

Mourning practices in Judaism are extensive, but they are not an expression of fear or distaste for death. Jewish practices relating to death and mourning have two purposes: to show respect for the dead (kavod ha-met), and to comfort the living (nihum avelim), who will miss the deceased

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Jewish mourning practices can be broken into several periods of decreasing intensity. These mourning periods allow the full expression of grief, while discouraging excesses of grief and allowing the mourner to gradually return to a normal life.

When a close relative (parent, sibling, spouse or child) first hears of the death of a relative, it is traditional to express the initial grief by tearing one's clothing. The tear is made over the heart if the deceased is a parent, or over the right side of the chest for other relatives. This tearing of the clothing is referred to as keriyah

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Finding your bashert doesn't mean that your marriage will be trouble-free. Marriage, requires dedication, effort and energy. Even when two people are soul mates, it is possible for them to ruin their marriage. That is why Judaism allows divorce. Judaism has always accepted divorce as a fact of life, and allows divorce for any reason, but tries to discourage divorce.

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Judaism believes in the concept of soul mates, called bashert.The primary purpose of marriage is love and companionship, not just childbearing. A contract called a ketubah spells out terms of marriage and divorce. Marriages between certain close relatives are prohibited. Children born out of wedlock are not bastards in Jewish law

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A bar mitzvah is the religious initiation ceremony of a Jewish boy who has reached the age of 13 and is regarded as ready to observe religious precepts and eligible to take part in public worship.

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Jael Davis & Fletcher Henson Hoskins