mitzvah
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Hebrew מצווה (mitsvá, “commandment”).
Noun
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:
- She called Penansky regularly to remind her to observe the mitzvahs.
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- (Judaism) An act of kindness, a good deed.
- 2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage 2014, p. 17:
- ‘You heard about them pulling my license. That was indirectly Joel. Who, without meaning to, did me such a mitzvah.’
- 2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage 2014, p. 17:
Translations
any of the 613 commandments of Jewish law
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an act of kindness
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