mitzvah

Example Sentences

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As a child in New Orleans, Nicholas Lemann never attended a bar mitzvah or heard Hebrew.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

But this is optional, not obligatory — especially if your daughter has said that she is happy with the current plans for her bat mitzvah.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 26, 2025

My brother had his bar mitzvah at the mountaintop fortress of Masada overlooking the Dead Sea.

From Salon • Nov. 30, 2025

And he had his bar mitzvah in Israel last year.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2025

“Mazel tov on your bar mitzvah, young man. You honor us all by what you’re doing.”

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman