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Example sentences for: mitzvah

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My son, who had rattled both of his deeply secular parents a few years earlier by requesting a bar mitzvah (for which, to our astonishment, he studied intently for two years, delivering himself of a whomping cantor-led performance and bar mitzvah speech in which he discussed in serious 13-year-old voice his intense feeling about carrying on a tradition his father's family had let lapse), told me kindly one day that he had stopped eating pork so maybe I could cut back on the bacon.
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."
Simple facts ("Angus refused to sing 'In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida' at the Goldstein bar mitzvah") generate pages of abstract legal theory ("Was there a meeting of the minds about whose version he was to sing?").
"The Gimelsteins, of Lawrence, will order tastefully understated invitations to their daughter's bat mitzvah."
I never had a bar mitzvah.