Meaning of mitzvah | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any of the 613 commandments of Jewish law.
   Judaism
2. An act of kindness, a good deed.
   Judaism
3. A Jewish celebration, but particularly a clipping of bar mitzvah and/or bat mitzvah.
   metonymically

Equivalents

Examples

“She called Penansky regularly to remind⟳ her to observe⟳ the mitzvahs.”

“‘You heard about them pulling my license⟳. That was indirectly Joel. Who, without meaning to, did me such a mitzvah.’”

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