Consider the practice of holding a second bar mitzvah

Consider the practice of holding a second bar mitzvah. Mark Koller from Mount Kisco, New York, was a captive in a Ukrainian labor camp on the day of his bar mitzvah: April 23, 1943. He felt for decades that he'd missed out. So, in his eighties, after a life spent journeying from a labor camp to Israel to the United States, he arranged a second bar mitzvah-which he celebrated at age eighty-three. His rabbi wholeheartedly supported this decision with help from the Torah: an average life span is around seventy years so an additional thirteen years warrants a second celebration.

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