mitzvah
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Hebrew מצווה (mitsvá, “commandment”).
Noun edit
mitzvah (plural mitzvahs or mitzvoth)
- (Judaism) Any of the 613 commandments of Jewish law.
- 1988 September 2, Florence Hamlish Levinsohn, “A Special Connection With God”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
- She called Penansky regularly to remind her to observe the mitzvahs.
- (Judaism) An act of kindness, a good deed.
- 2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage, published 2014, page 17:
- ‘You heard about them pulling my license. That was indirectly Joel. Who, without meaning to, did me such a mitzvah.’
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Translations edit
any of the 613 commandments of Jewish law