mitzvah

IPA: mˈɪtsvʌ

Examples of "mitzvah" in Sentences

The word mitzvah does not mean “good deed” but actually means commandment.
"It's what we call a mitzvah, a blessing or a good deed, to go to a funeral.
“Sometimes a mitzvah is seeing for yourself and coaxing a smile from the darkness.”
It is considered a blessing - or "mitzvah" - for a congregation to have a Sefer Torah.
He said this like it was a marvelous good deed, something Jeri might have called a mitzvah.
May we be found worthy by God to be numbered in the circle of these women and men … The reward of a mitzvah is the recognition of the great deed by God.
Just as the mitzvah of the Hanukkah lights is described as a mitzvah for “a person and his household,” which the man usually performs, women accepted kindling the Sabbath lights as their personal mitzvah.
The Shulhan Arukh rules that although it is customary for a man to light the Hanukkah lamp on behalf of the entire household, and although the mitzvah is a time-dependent precept, a woman may fulfill the obligation on behalf of her household (Orah Hayyim 675: 3).