Did women and children attend the synagogues in Jesus' time?

tonychanyt · Jun 17, 2024

There was a woman in the synagogue in Luke 13:

10 On a Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues, 11 and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all.

There is a riddle in the Jerusalem Talmud, Berachot 9d:

In a town in which all the residents are priests, when they spread their hands [in the synagogue] and give the priestly blessing, who responds ‘Amen’?

The answer is

the women and children.

This means that women and children attended synagogue services as the Jerusalem Talmud assumed.

See also Do women and children belong to the assembly of Israel?.

Ace777 · Jun 24, 2024

In Orthodox communities, boys become bar mitzvah at 13 and girls become bat mitzvah at 12. In most Reform, Reconstructionist, and Conservative communities, the milestone is 13 regardless of gender.[5] After this point, children are also held responsible for knowing Jewish ritual law, tradition, and ethics, and are able to participate in all areas of Jewish community life to the same extent as adults. In some Jewish communities, men's and women's roles differ in certain respects

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