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
• If William O’Haire was going to take the legal road with him, well, goodbye to the mitzvah.
  — Ben Kesling, WSJ, 28 May 2021
• Thank you, God, for the mitzvah [commandment] of lighting the candles.
  — Mary Beth McCauley, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Nov. 2019
• 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
• These three different messages of kol are echoed in the mitzvah of shofar.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 23 Sep. 2019
• The aid is not viewed as an impediment to fulfilling the mitzvah.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 3 Oct. 2022
• 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
• Rabbis in the camp decreed that even one minute spent inside was a sufficient mitzvah, or good deed.
  — New York Times, 21 Sep. 2019
• For Wolf, this mitzvah was personal for him because Zarchi is his brother-in-law.
  — Sergio Carmona, Jewish Journal, 20 Oct. 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
• 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
• 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
• There’s also the mitzvah of the joy that this brings, not only for Joey, his mother and us at Giborim U, but also the entire community.
  — Sergio Carmona, sun-sentinel.com, 29 Aug. 2019
• 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
• Each Shmita year, the entire Jewish people would gather in Jerusalem to perform the mitzvah of Hakhel — gathering.
  — Jacob Gurvis, sun-sentinel.com, 7 Sep. 2021
• On the individual level, the Talmud states, there is no reward for doing a mitzvah in this world; that comes in the hereafter (Kiddushin 39b).
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 23 May 2022
• 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
• From Israel, a comedy about a bar mitzvah gone horribly wrong.
  — Chris Hewitt, Twin Cities, 11 June 2017
• Sharing hamantaschen is one interpretation of the Purim mitzvah (good deed).
  — Joan Elovitz Kazan, Journal Sentinel, 27 Feb. 2023
• But a bat-mitzvah would mark a young woman’s exit from participation.
  — Lisa Fishbayn Joffe, The Conversation, 15 Mar. 2022
• In the end, Beethoven’s relation to the bar mitzvah or to the Beckett work which received its world premiere after intermission was irrelevant.
  — Marcus Overton, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 June 2017
• In Judaism, tzedakah—roughly, charity—is a moral obligation, a mitzvah.
  — Magda Teter, The New York Review of Books, 29 Apr. 2021
• 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
• In the city, which was still reeling from its brush with bankruptcy the previous year, Mueller did all manner of work to get by, including go-go dancing, singing at bat mitzvahs, clothes designing, and drug dealing.
  — Negar Azimi, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023
• The greatest mitzvah performed by survivors was continuing to bring children into this world.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 7 Sep. 2021
• And religious events for both religions — b’nai mitzvah, Ramadan nights, prayer services and beyond.
  — Emily Alhadeff, sun-sentinel.com, 6 May 2021
• Honestly, that Netflix took this one almost qualifies as a mitzvah for theaters.
  — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 29 June 2022
• Giving Purim gifts to friends and family is another fun part of the tradition — and doing so is considered a mitzvah (commandment).
  — Alesandra Dubin, Woman's Day, 23 Jan. 2023
• Indeed, emphasis on life overrides any mitzvah; even Shabbat must be violated to save life.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 7 Sep. 2021
• The occasion’s typically highlighted with prayers, pomp and celebration called the bar (or bat) mitzvah.
  — Ramona Sentinel, 16 July 2019

Last Updated: 18 Oct 2024