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mitzvah

[meets-vah, mits-, mits-vuh] / mitsˈvɑ, mɪts-, ˈmɪts və /
NOUN
commandment
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She was married there and her son's Bar Mitzvah was held there.

From BBC • Dec. 20, 2025

WINNER: Cooper Raiff, “Cha Cha Real Smooth” “A young man who works as a Bar Mitzvah party host strikes up a friendship with a mother and her autistic daughter.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 15, 2023

It's interesting that you bring that up because I actually had somebody call me who's very close to me and said, "Are you a little worried about opening with the Bat Mitzvah?"

From Salon • May 5, 2023

In the film, he plays a recent college graduate working as a party starter on the Bar Mitzvah circuit, where he meets and befriends a single mom played by Dakota Johnson.

From Seattle Times • May 6, 2022

It is not known whether Bobby, on or near his thirteenth birthday of March 9, 1956, participated in the formal Jewish ritual of Bar Mitzvah, reading Hebrew from the Torah at a synagogue.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady




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