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What is the difference between a double and a single Bar/Bat Mitzvah?

April 26, 2017bar Bat difference double Mitzvah

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What is the difference between a double and a single Bar/Bat Mitzvah?

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B’nai mitzvah students do four major things on the day of their bar/bat mitzvah: chant Torah, chant Haftarah, lead parts of the service and teach Torah (deliver a d’var Torah). If it is a double bar/bat mitzvah, the main element that the students do together is leading parts of the service. The other elements (chanting from Torah, Haftarah and delivering a d’var Torah) are done individually. The order of students is determined by which part of the Torah portion they are chanting is first in the Torah.