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plural mitzvahs or mitzvoth
(Judaism) Any of the 613 commandments of Jewish law. quotations examples
She called Penansky regularly to remind her to observe the mitzvahs.
1988 September 2, Florence Hamlish Levinsohn, “A Special Connection With God”, in Chicago Reader
(Judaism) An act of kindness, a good deed. quotations examples
‘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, published 2014, page 17