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mitzvah

[meets-vah, mits-, mits-vuh] / mitsˈvɑ, mɪts-, ˈmɪts və /
NOUN
commandment
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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

Reiner’s parents got him an 8mm film camera for his bar mitzvah and from that moment on he was rarely without one.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025

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

From Salon • Nov. 30, 2025

“Yes, we do belong here,” says Jacob, who knows almost as much as Isaac, just having celebrated his bar mitzvah.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar




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