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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of being commanded.

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  • noun The state or quality of being commanded.

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Examples

  • Furthermore, the halakhic literature subsequent to the Mishnah develops the notion of “obligation” or “commandedness” as an integral aspect of full halakhic subjectivity, whereas exemption amounts to exclusion from the performance of religious acts on behalf of others as their representative (e.g., serving as a sheliah zibbur), as well as ultimately to the exclusion of women from teaching and therefore reproduction of Torah (Kiddushin 29b; Sotah 21a; see below).

    Gender Identity In Halakhic Discourse. 2009

  • A side point - if the Reform philosophy is that commandedness is to be decided on a case by case basis, and by each individual, shouldn’t Reform be more aggressively promoting deep learning about each of the commandments?

    YOUR HEAD A SPLODE | Jewschool 2007

  • BZ: I use baalat teshuva to say that I formerly had no relationship to Jewish law and commandedness nor to Jewish learning and now I do, and I do because I had some serious epiphanes about how I needed to live my life and worked damn hard to acquire the knowledge and spiritual communities to be able to do that.

    Being a pillar can be lonely | Jewschool 2007

  • A side point - if the Reform philosophy is that commandedness is to be decided on a case by case basis, and by each individual, shouldn’t Reform be more aggressively promoting deep learning about each of the commandments?

    YOUR HEAD A SPLODE | Jewschool 2007

  • This feeling of commandedness and belief in communal commandedness doesn’t meant that I’m going to run around throwing rocks at anybody who doesn’t do what I do–a startlingly disporportionate number of my close friends are Jewish and either not Jewishly observant or not halakhically observant.

    halakha is your friend - Danya Ruttenberg 2005

  • This feeling of commandedness and belief in communal commandedness doesn’t meant that I’m going to run around throwing rocks at anybody who doesn’t do what I do–a startlingly disporportionate number of my close friends are Jewish and either not Jewishly observant or not halakhically observant.

    2005 May - Danya Ruttenberg 2005

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