#Microblog Monday 392: Becoming a Woman
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35 years ago… I think it was 35 years ago. I’m getting fuzzy with the year. While I could look this up pretty easily, I don’t feel like moving boxes around. Anyway, 35 years-ish ago, young Melissa stood on the bimah and had her Bat Mitzvah.
The first Bat Mitzvah was in 1922, though it didn’t become commonplace until the 1960s. 1960s! Isn’t that bizarre to think about now? My generation was the first generation where it was commonplace to have a Bat Mitzvah. The only women I know in my parents’ generation who had a Bat Mitzvah did so as an adult. And one generation later, I could turn around and tutor my kids for their B’nai Mitzvah.
Change comes slowly and quickly.
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I had no idea this was a recent development (relatively speaking).
Same here
It makes sense — so much changed for girls & women in the 1960s & 70s — but yeah, yikes!!
Whoa, that’s wild! And I just found out what a B’nai Mitzvah was this past week when a coworker was going to one. I didn’t recognize the term at first. But 1992 for the first Bat Mitzvah? That’s crazy.
I had to google B’nai Mitzvah, though I had an idea what it might be. So many things have changed in our lifetimes – and yet so many more still need to change. Yes, “change comes slowly and quickly” – I really like that description.