Example sentences for: mitzvah

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

  • "Adolph Coors studies for his bar mitzvah."

  • I never had a bar mitzvah.

  • 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.

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

  • 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?").


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