Example sentences for: mitzvah

How can you use “mitzvah” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • I never had a bar mitzvah.

  • As someone who has (based on circumstantial evidence such as his bar mitzvah), I found this latter datum especially interesting.

  • In the '60s, he succumbed to schizophrenia, believing himself a "messianic figure of great but secret importance" and writing cryptic messages, such as "Mao Tse-tung's Bar Mitzvah was 13 years, 13 months, and 13 days after Brezhnev's circumcision."

  • At social occasions such as my son's upcoming bar mitzvah, I would be reluctant to say, "I'd like you to meet my grandmother and her boyfriend."

  • In the early '50s, in a famous Middletown -style study of a Chicago suburb referred to as "Lakeville," sociologist Marshall Sklare found that lighting the Hanukkah candles ranked as the most popular "mitzvah," above hosting a Passover Seder and observing the Sabbath.


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