mitzvah

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for mitzvah.

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And from experience, a Bar/Bat Mitzvah is certainly an achievement, not merely a coming of age ceremony.

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Quick take

(Judaism) An act of kindness, a good deed.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of mitzvah gathered in one view.

noun

(Judaism) An act of kindness, a good deed.

noun

(Judaism) Any of the 613 commandments of Jewish law.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for mitzvah.

noun

(Judaism) An act of kindness, a good deed.

noun

(Judaism) Any of the 613 commandments of Jewish law.

Example sentences

And from experience, a Bar/Bat Mitzvah is certainly an achievement, not merely a coming of age ceremony.

A considerable number of Israeli citizens arrive in adulthood, maybe with bar mitzvah level Hebrew and sometimes not even that.

My grandmother gave me Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior for my bar mitzvah.

At best, it's going through puberty and is about to have its bar mitzvah.

Would you be offended if someone made a bar mitzvah version?

Playing a wedding or bar mitzvah is custom work on contract with a single client who to some extent directly dictates your set list, etc.

Instead, think of it as a coming-of-age celebration, like a mitzvah.

Moreover, we even allow Mohels to suck the baby's penis clean and have a celebratory meal afterward, called a Seudat Mitzvah [2].

No one here has attended a wedding or bar mitzvah?

Not paying for WSJ content is a mitzvah.

But today launching your first business, or any new business, is a major part of a person's life, just as big as a wedding or a bar mitzvah.

Everyone understands it's not the success yet, but it's sort of a bar-mitzvah for startups, acceptance by some authoritative entity (VC) that you're a grown-up and can do serious stuff.

Quote examples

A "mitzvah" is simply a commandment; the Bar Mitzvah is but one of these.

Wasn’t that caused by pro-palestinian people reporting him out of hatred for attending a “butt-mitzvah” Jewish gay party?

"Given enough people with smartphones, a teen from New Jersey will turn his bar mitzvah money into $300,000, purely by chance."

“I tell them I had some bar mitzvah money that I decided to invest, and that’s how it got started,” Logan tells me.

Proper noun examples

It seems to be a Rubyist/Pythonist's version of a Bar Mitzvah.

Great for playing at the camp fire, or covers at a wedding or Bar Mitzvah, but nobody is going to hire you to be part of their symphony band or the work in the theatre district adding music to broadway plays.

Like I grew up with Jewish neighbors, I've been to more than a few Bar and Bat Mitzvah's; I understand that Jewish people are just people, and I have not more hate in my heart for them that I do for anyone else.