Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Among the Jews, a precept.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (Judaism) a precept or commandment of the Jewish law
- noun (Judaism) a good deed performed out of religious duty
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Examples
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The performance of a mitsvah is not symbolic, but intrinsically meaningful; it does not require an extra layer of interpretive validity to validate it.
The Passionate Torah 2009
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After the rabbi marries the ex-prostitute, the mitsvah of wearing tsitsit is “fulfilled, not only in ritual observance, but also in recovered personal dignity.”
The Passionate Torah 2009
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Sex is not merely “a deep recognition of humanity,” but also a mitsvah.
The Passionate Torah 2009
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Anything wrong with the satisfaction of fulfilling such a mitsvah?
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Eric that reminds me of the complaint "Isn't teshuvah a mitsvah every day??"
Jewschool 2009
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Eric that reminds me of the complaint "Isn't teshuvah a mitsvah every day??"
Jewschool 2009
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If I use the Rothko Chapel to host my son’s bar mitsvah, I am treating it other than aesthetically, and if I drive a Jaguar to class in College Station, I may be using it for the purpose for which it was intended, but I am hardly driving a work of art.
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If I use the Rothko Chapel to host my son’s bar mitsvah, I am treating it other than aesthetically, and if I drive a Jaguar to class in College Station, I may be using it for the purpose for which it was intended, but I am hardly driving a work of art.
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If I use the Rothko Chapel to host my son’s bar mitsvah, I am treating it other than aesthetically, and if I drive a Jaguar to class in College Station, I may be using it for the purpose for which it was intended, but I am hardly driving a work of art.
Aesthetic offenses 2009
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