mitzvah
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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
Davis’s Columbia stint ended abruptly when he was fired in 1973 for allegedly using tens of thousands of dollars in company funds to pay for personal expenses including his son’s bar mitzvah.
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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 was planning on giving them a bar mitzvah preview, since Dana says I’m getting good.
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
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
He kept it alive in private, performing at weddings and bar mitzvahs after he was forced to flee to France, until he released a breakthrough album, “Café Oran,” in 1996 at the age of 68.
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2024
Maybe that's why you have bar mitzvahs at thirteen—it's the perfect time to start exploring who you are.
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
