Crossword-Solution: MITZVAH
We have 13 clues for the answer “MITZVAH”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Bar -- (Jewish rite) | 1 answer |
| Bas or bar follower | 1 answer |
| Bat ___ (rite that includes preparing a Torah teaching) | 1 answer |
| Biblical precept | 1 answer |
| Coming-of-age ritual | 1 answer |
| Jewish commandment or good deed | 1 answer |
| Old Testament precept | 1 answer |
| a good deed performed out of religious duty | 1 answer |
| Earn a blessing | 2 answers |
| Bar closing? | 3 answers |
| Bas ___. | 6 answers |
| Bath | 51 answers |
| Bar | 109 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATEER
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greedy person
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Sentences with MITZVAH (5)
The language of ceremonies is entrusted to consultants in marriage, confirmation, baptism, bar mitzvah, and death.
This banquet was called one of the Seudoth Mitzvah, _i.e._ "commandment meals," to which it was a duty of all pious men to contribute their money and their own attendance.
For the children of our age, both young and old, should know that that God-consciousness of the Jew, that wondrous sense of eternity in his mission, is not a laboriously acquired conviction, not the result of some spasmodic effort of grasping the innermost meaning of our history, but the natural pervading spirit of Jewish life, the air which the Jew breathes, when he lives with Torah as his guide and Mitzvah as his ladder towards heaven.
Mendel having attained his thirteenth year and acquired due proficiency in the difficult studies of the Jewish law, would become _bar-mitzvah_; in other words, he would take upon himself the responsibility of a man before God and the world, and acknowledge his readiness to act and suffer for the maintenance of the belief in _Adonai Echod_--the only God.
The parents throughout the quarter, having discussed the one topic of the day, Mendel's _bar-mitzvah_, had extinguished their candles and sought their pillows, preparatory to again venturing forth into a cold and inhospitable world in search of their meagre subsistence.
Quotes with MITZVAH (3)
Allowing yourself to stop reading a book - at page 25, 50, or even, less frequently, a few chapters from the end - is a rite of passage in a reader's life, the literary equivalent of a bar mitzvah or a communion, the moment at which you look at yourself and announce: Today I am an adult. I can make my own decisions.
Keep in mind too, our failures serve to teach us, and usually teach us more than our successes do. What we may perceive as a failure is also an opportunity for someone else to rise to the occasion and perform a mitzvah, or mitzvot. Do not begrudge someone their joyous performance of mitzvot. Sometimes, perhaps even more often then you may think, what we consider our failures were blessings in disguise for ourselves, or others, or everyone. Abraham did not change the world jus…
The ceremony was fast so we wouldn't be caught. When it was over, the men all whispered 'Mazel tov' and climbed back onto their shelves. I went up to the boy and pressed the wooden horse into his hands, the only present I could give him. The boy looked at me with big, round eyes. Had I ever been so young? 'We are alive,' I told him. 'We are alive, and that is all that matters. We cannot let them tear us from the pages of the world.'I said it as much for me as for him. I said …
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1972–2025).