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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