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Definition of Mitzvah
1. Noun. (Judaism) a precept or commandment of the Jewish law.
Generic synonyms: Commandment, Precept, Teaching
Category relationships: Judaism
2. Noun. (Judaism) a good deed performed out of religious duty.
Generic synonyms: Act, Deed, Human Action, Human Activity
Category relationships: Judaism
Definition of Mitzvah
1. Noun. Any of the 613 commandments of Jewish law ¹
2. Noun. An act of kindness ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mitzvah
1. a commandment of Jewish law [n -VAHS or -VOTH]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mitzvah
Literary usage of Mitzvah
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Jewish Ceremonial Institutions and Customs by William Rosenau (1912)
"CHAPTER X BAR Mitzvah The thirteenth birthday of the Jewish boy is one of the
most important events of his life. He is then considered as having attained ..."
2. Annual Convention by Central Conference of American Rabbis (1891)
"The Bar Mitzvah ceremony has lived its day, and so we should declare it. ...
The Bar Mitzvah emphasizes the old and false notion of the autonomy of the ..."
3. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse by Joseph Friedlander, George Alexander Kohut (1917)
"To Walter Lionel de Rothschild on His Bar-Mitzvah ""THINE is the heritage of
ancient birth, Age upon age hath dawned since first thy race Was cradled in the ..."
4. The Jewish Religion Ethically Presented by H. (Henry) Pereira Mendes (1905)
"XI THE BAR-Mitzvah. • 1. Custom has made thirteen years the age of Bar- Mitzva.
2. Bar-Mitzva means literally "a son of the Commandment" ; that is, ..."
5. Prophets and Profits: Managerialism and the Restructuring of Jewish Schools by Chaya Herman (2006)
"(Teacher) At the same time, the parents were promised that the synagogues adjacent
to the schools would conduct the Bat-Mitzvah ceremony with the help of ..."
6. Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People by Israel Zangwill (1895)
"Believe me it was no Mitzvah." Mitzvah is a " portmanteau-word." It means a
commandment and a good deed, the two conceptions being regarded as ..."
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