mitzvah

Example Sentences

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As a child in New Orleans, Nicholas Lemann never attended a bar mitzvah or heard Hebrew.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

But this is optional, not obligatory — especially if your daughter has said that she is happy with the current plans for her bat mitzvah.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 26, 2025

June, for a bat mitzvah scene you memorized a complicated Torah portion.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2025

My brother had his bar mitzvah at the mountaintop fortress of Masada overlooking the Dead Sea.

From Salon • Nov. 30, 2025

He says he’s sticking with us, so we all have to invite him to our bar and bat mitzvah parties.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan