I have updated the glossary with the defined words in this thread. To include other words in the glossary, please put them here.

In checking out what GY has throughout the site, I came across the glossary and the Bar/Bas Mitzvah listing. I believe it is necessary to correct the common misconception that the currently listed definition supports.

Aside from the fact that the concept of Bas Mitzvah is a modern one, and even the Bar Mitzvah wasn't a formal event until the middle ages, the terms are often mistakenly used to refer to the celebration itself; however the term actually refers to the boy or girl.

The event, itself, is often misunderstood to be a rite of passage by which one becomes a Jewish adult, but in fact it is merely a celebration of the adulthood that automatically arrives, simply by virtue of age. The ceremony does not change the status of the celebrant nor does it imbue any additional rights or responsibilities beyond those which were automatically imbued on a boy's 13th (or girl's 12th) birthday.

Is it customary for a father to recite a declaration acknowledging that he is no longer the first line of responsibility for any of his child's aveiros, should there be any, and to do this during the celebration?

Is there any significance to such a declaration, that until the child hears it, even if their time for adulthood has come, they might not have been warned of their taking on their own responsibility?