mitzvah
mitsvuh
- n (Judaism) a precept or commandment of the Jewish law
- n (Judaism) a good deed performed out of religious duty
- When a Jewish boy turns 13, he heads to a temple for a deeply meaningful rite of passage, his bar mitzvah.
- During the summer of my 13th year, my father took me to Japan as a bar mitzvah present.
- When an uninitiated Jewish male drops by a Mitzvah Mobile, the Lubavitchers show him how to wrap the tefillin, pray with him, and send him on his way belatedly bar mitzvahed.