mitzvah

• “The word mitzvah does not mean “good deed” but actually means commandment.”

  Simon & Schuster: THE BLESSING OF A SKINNED KNEE

• ““Sometimes a mitzvah is seeing for yourself and coaxing a smile from the darkness.””

  February 2008

• “It's what we call a mitzvah, a blessing or a good deed, to go to a funeral.”

  Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry

• “It is considered a blessing - or "mitzvah" - for a congregation to have a Sefer Torah.”

  Summit Daily News - Top Stories

• “He said this like it was a marvelous good deed, something Jeri might have called a mitzvah.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Gin Closet

• “May we be found worthy by God to be numbered in the circle of these women and men … The reward of a mitzvah is the recognition of the great deed by God.”

  Regina Jonas.

• “The Shulhan Arukh rules that although it is customary for a man to light the Hanukkah lamp on behalf of the entire household, and although the mitzvah is a time-dependent precept, a woman may fulfill the obligation on behalf of her household (Orah Hayyim 675: 3).”

  Festivals and Holy Days.

• “Just as the mitzvah of the Hanukkah lights is described as a mitzvah for “a person and his household,” which the man usually performs, women accepted kindling the Sabbath lights as their personal mitzvah.”

  Observance of Mitzvot: Custom and Halakhah.

• “Our Jewish friends have what is called a mitzvah, which can literally mean a Biblical commandment; in a larger sense it can also mean any act of human kindness.”

  Archive 2006-08-20

• “An example is the Jewish Kabbalistic transformation of the notion of mitzvah (“commandment”) to that of”

  Mysticism

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