mitzvah

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(Hint: An acronym for the mitzvah is beis, tav, sin.)

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  1. noun A commandment of the Jewish law.
  2. noun The fulfillment of such a commandment.
  3. noun A worthy deed.

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  • His grandparents—my parents—bought him a set of The History of Civilization for his bar mitzvah, and I'm building this to hold them. —  Laura Lipmann - By a Spider's Tread
  • And as the youngest in his class, Dovid's bar mitzvah was the last one in the merry-go-round that was simcha season. —  EQMM,May2007
  • (Hint: An acronym for the mitzvah is beis, tav, sin.) —  Vos Iz Neias - (Yiddish:What's News?)
  • Now the jailhouse bar mitzvah is at the center of criminal probes into allegations of special treatment of a handful of Jewish inmates and blatant departures from jail rules. —  Newsvine - Get Smarter Here
  • The city's Department of Investigation - a watchdog agency that investigates government misconduct - and the Manhattan district attorney's office are looking into the circumstances behind the bar mitzvah, their spokeswomen said. —  Newsvine - Get Smarter Here
 

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  1. Hebrew miṣwâ, from ṣiwwâ, to command; see ṣwy1 in Semitic roots.
 

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