NOUN
- (Judaism) a precept or commandment of the Jewish law
- (Judaism) a good deed performed out of religious duty
How To Use mitsvah In A Sentence
- Anything wrong with the satisfaction of fulfilling such a mitsvah? Another One Bites The Dust | Jewschool
- The performance of a mitsvah is not symbolic, but intrinsically meaningful; it does not require an extra layer of interpretive validity to validate it. The Passionate Torah
- If I use the Rothko Chapel to host my son’s bar mitsvah, I am treating it other than aesthetically, and if I drive a Jaguar to class in College Station, I may be using it for the purpose for which it was intended, but I am hardly driving a work of art. Comparing Aesthetic Experiences
- Sex is not merely “a deep recognition of humanity,” but also a mitsvah. The Passionate Torah
- After the rabbi marries the ex-prostitute, the mitsvah of wearing tsitsit is “fulfilled, not only in ritual observance, but also in recovered personal dignity.” The Passionate Torah
- Eric that reminds me of the complaint "Isn't teshuvah a mitsvah every day?? Jewschool
