mitzvah

Currently, there are 370 seats available at maximum capacity—but that doesn’t include room for a dance floor, a critical component for a wedding or bar mitzvah.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

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

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

I went from learning about Grandma to bar mitzvah lessons in the blink of an eye.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

But the great, and sociologically accurate, joke about bar mitzvahs among the Jewish has three rabbis at lunch each discussing his problem with mice in his synagogue.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026

The quinceañeras Google form is now being used for all sorts of requests, from bar mitzvahs to new businesses opening.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026

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

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2024

Over the weekend, he spoke with his cousins in Jerusalem, friends in Tel Aviv, and others he’d seen when he visited Israel twice this summer for two weddings and four bar mitzvahs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2023

I’ve never watched anyone dance solo before, beyond the awkward showboating that happens when people circle up at bar mitzvahs.

From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli

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