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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Hebrew מצווה (mitsvá, “commandment”).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈmɪts.və/
Noun
mitzvah (plural mitzvahs or mitzvot or mitzvoth or mitzvos)
- (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.
- (Judaism) An act of kindness, a good deed.
2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage, published 2014, page 17:‘You heard about them pulling my license. That was indirectly Joel. Who, without meaning to, did me such a mitzvah.’
Translations
any of the 613 commandments of Jewish law