How to Use mitzvah in a Sentence

mitzvah

noun
  • And to Kevin, for a gift even greater than the mitzvah of matchmaking.
    — Sari Botton, Longreads, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Yeah, so the bar mitzvah was on our birthday — which is March 14 — a month ago.
    — Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 15 Apr. 2026
  • These three different messages of kol are echoed in the mitzvah of shofar.
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 23 Sep. 2019
  • The name of a soldier to pray for or dedicate a mitzvah or kabalah to will then be emailed to users.
    — Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Rabbis in the camp decreed that even one minute spent inside was a sufficient mitzvah, or good deed.
    — New York Times, 21 Sep. 2019
  • The aid is not viewed as an impediment to fulfilling the mitzvah.
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 3 Oct. 2022
  • For Wolf, this mitzvah was personal for him because Zarchi is his brother-in-law.
    — Sergio Carmona, Jewish Journal, 20 Oct. 2017
  • By the Great Synagogue, a bald guy with a big black yarmulke stops us and mumbles something about a mitzvah.
    — Etgar Keret, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022
  • Gun violence in America has risen to the point where anything short of a massacre seems like a mitzvah.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2022
  • But a bat-mitzvah would mark a young woman’s exit from participation.
    — Lisa Fishbayn Joffe, The Conversation, 15 Mar. 2022
  • If William O’Haire was going to take the legal road with him, well, goodbye to the mitzvah.
    — Ben Kesling, WSJ, 28 May 2021
  • From Israel, a comedy about a bar mitzvah gone horribly wrong.
    — Chris Hewitt, Twin Cities, 11 June 2017
  • Harold Katz didn't require a crash course in Hebrew before his bar mitzvah next week in Wilmette.
    — Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 24 May 2017
  • The greatest mitzvah performed by survivors was continuing to bring children into this world.
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 7 Sep. 2021
  • All this may have been particularly hurtful to a boy who, on the day of his bar mitzvah, sat on the roof of his house and pelted his parents’ guests with oranges.
    — David Denby, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2017
  • Those giving their time are welcome bring along children, grandchildren, friends or other family members to share in this mitzvah.
    — Staff Report, Houston Chronicle, 6 June 2019
  • Sharing hamantaschen is one interpretation of the Purim mitzvah (good deed).
    — Joan Elovitz Kazan, Journal Sentinel, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Honestly, that Netflix took this one almost qualifies as a mitzvah for theaters.
    — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 29 June 2022
  • In Judaism, tzedakah—roughly, charity—is a moral obligation, a mitzvah.
    — Magda Teter, The New York Review of Books, 29 Apr. 2021
  • In Judaism, tzedakah—roughly, charity—is a moral obligation, a mitzvah.
    — Magda Teter, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Ari, once named Ali, wants to perform the funeral service and dreams of becoming a rabbi, but will need a pan-gender bart mitzvah first.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Indeed, emphasis on life overrides any mitzvah; even Shabbat must be violated to save life.
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 7 Sep. 2021
  • On the individual level, as the Talmud states, there is no reward for doing a mitzvah in this world – that comes in the world hereafter.
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Jewish Journal, 15 May 2017
  • In Judaism, it would be called, for those who heard it and those who played and those who will hear it in the future (microphones hung over the stage), a mitzvah — a divine good deed.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2023
  • And religious events for both religions — b’nai mitzvah, Ramadan nights, prayer services and beyond.
    — Emily Alhadeff, sun-sentinel.com, 6 May 2021
  • While donors perform a mitzvah in giving, recipients play no less a role in the mitzvah by providing the opportunity to give.
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Cole, Pally says, even used his bar-mitzvah clothing budget to buy a vintage suit and a tub of La Mer facial moisturizer.
    — Marah Eakin, Vulture, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Sherry and Christian Rauh's 13-year-old son Julian recently had his bar mitzvah through the program.
    — Sergio Carmona, Jewish Journal, 30 June 2017
  • The shofar is an ancient musical horn typically made of a ram's horn and is the central mitzvah, or observance, of Rosh Hashanah.
    — Evan Casey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Events like weddings and b’nei mitzvah services will go on as planned this weekend, but the synagogue asked that only immediate family members attend the events.
    — oregonlive, 13 Mar. 2020

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