Bull Jumping: The Importance Of Passages In Jewish Culture

Rites of passages are used to symbolically mark the importance of a particular transition the Hamar people use bull jumping as a way to initiate boys into man hood. Similarly, Jewish culture has bar mitzvah to initiate a boy into manhood. In societies people tend to mark certain life points with a symbolic events to convey meaning and importance. Making a symbolic event gives importance and something to strive for and allows a shared celebration of a collective achievement of a society. For the Hamar people the whole tribe is there to show how important this transition is. Symbolic events construct the realities in people's