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mitzvah

[meets-vah, mits-, mits-vuh] / mitsˈvɑ, mɪts-, ˈmɪts və /
NOUN
commandment
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You usually go there for something—a birthday, a bar mitzvah, a special family Saturday-afternoon outing.

From Slate Jun. 25, 2026

Despite the success, he was ousted from Columbia when the company accused him of using company funds to pay for personal expenses, including his son's bar mitzvah.

From BBC Jun. 22, 2026

Jacobs: I started my first business when I was 23 years old in 1979 with $5,000 left over from my bar mitzvah money, and that business grew to a billion dollars.

From MarketWatch May 6, 2026

Bandel came with his entire family to celebrate his grandson's upcoming bar mitzvah, the Jewish coming-of-age ritual.

From Barron's Apr. 9, 2026

Link’s bar mitzvah was more than a religious service; it really changed people around here.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

Bar mitzvahs were often marked by expensive parties.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 23, 2026

LaToya Hall, a chef for an upscale catering company, was on her feet all day, working unpredictable hours and moving heavy food trays for weddings and bar mitzvahs.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 13, 2025

"He said he had the bar mitzvahs covered but I have the weddings covered with Love is All Around. "

From BBC Oct. 26, 2024

They serve settlers and specialize in bar mitzvahs and business lunches.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 30, 2023

There are no other bar mitzvahs happening at Chokecherry Middle School today.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

Few Jews follow every letter of Jewish law, choosing to perform those mitzvot, or commandments, which best fit their lifestyle.

From Seattle Times Dec. 3, 2021

The Torah contains hundreds of commandments, or mitzvot, for Jews to follow in their everyday lives.

From Reuters Aug. 25, 2021

She pointed to the Jewish concepts of tikkun olam, meaning “repair the world,” and observing mitzvot, or commandments.

From Washington Post Nov. 21, 2019

That’s when she learned about mitzvot as a commandment — and, prodded by class conversations, began studying what the Torah and the Talmud, a book of Jewish oral law, said about abortion.

From Washington Post Aug. 6, 2019

The immediate aim of the young men in the Mitzvah Mobiles is to persuade Jews to return to observance of five basic mitzvot that, they say, epitomize the 613 commandments of traditional Jewish Law.

From Time Magazine Archive

Similarly, the Maharsha says the Torah’s 613 mitzvoth are only perceived as a plurality because we’re time-bound humans, even though they together form a singular truth which is indivisible from He who expressed it.

From Salon Oct. 22, 2023

Accordingly, his document commits Reform to continuous study of "the whole array of mitzvoth," acknowledging that certain of them "demand renewed attention."

From Time Magazine Archive




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