“Sometimes a mitzvah is seeing for yourself and coaxing a smile from the darkness.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [February 2008] Reference

"It's what we call a mitzvah, a blessing or a good deed, to go to a funeral.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry]

It is considered a blessing - or "mitzvah" - for a congregation to have a Sefer Torah.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summit Daily News - Top Stories] Reference

A mitzvah is the Hebrew term for a good deed, and Moshiach is Hebrew for the Messiah.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Stories - Google News] Reference

"The name is a takeoff on the words knit and mitzvah, which is 'to do a good deed,"'explained Barbara Gillmeister, of Wrentham.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Milford Daily News Homepage RSS] Reference

The mitzvah is a mitzvah regardless of whether we do it or not, and the transgression is a negative deed whether or not we succumb to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chabad.org Weekly Magazine [ Passover 5770 - March 29, 2010 ]] Reference

What a wonderful 'mitzvah', and your insights into jokes are right on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Jews telling off-color jokes | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com] Reference

This is what the Buddhists call a "mitzvah," and it is gift-giving in its purest form.    From Wordnik.com.  [Give It Up: The Best Gift is Nothing at All] Reference

Netziv's position that "mitzvah" to have King is only if people want it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hirhurim - Musings] Reference

I think some of these families need to concentrate more on the 'mitzvah' and less on the 'bar.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gothamist] Reference

Shouldn't the "mitzvah" "love thy neighbour as thyself" be practised, after all it is the most powerful of all "mitzvah".    From Wordnik.com.  [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference

The New York Times did a big "mitzvah" yesterday, by helping readers unscramble (pun intended) the mysteries of the egg.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jew and the Carrot] Reference

I got the idea of the "mitzvah" theme from NaBloMo (National Blog Month) and IComLeavWe International Comment Leaving Week.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fading Ad Blog by Frank H. Jump] Reference

A mitzvah is a mitzvah.    From Wordnik.com.  [2007 January | Jewschool] Reference

"If by 'mitzvah' you mean 'purchase' well then, by all means, please.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devra Maza: "The Shopping Maccabees: A Chanukah Miracle"] Reference

At 13, the age of bar mitzvah, children were full adults.    From Wordnik.com.  [Menachem Wecker: Why Does Pastor Mark Driscoll Say Judaism Is Anti-Children?] Reference

Also, would you like Bon Jovi to play at your bar mitzvah?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 30, 2006] Reference

There ` s the bar mitzvah boy, very happy that she crashed.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 8, 2007] Reference

Bon Jovi at your birthday party, 50 Cent at your bar mitzvah.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 31, 2006] Reference

HUGHLEY: That is the worst bar mitzvah speech I have ever heard.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 7, 2009] Reference

When his grandson was 13, he came to my synagogue for bar mitzvah.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spiritual State: O Have You Seen the Mufti Man?] Reference

HAMMER: Tomorrow, how would you like Bon Jovi to play your bar mitzvah?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 30, 2006] Reference

In turn, I celebrate Passover and each bar and bat mitzvah in his family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Keeping The Faith] Reference

BECK: Preparation for the bat mitzvah takes years of study and preparation.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 31, 2006] Reference

(You can, after all, rent its facilities for a bar mitzvah or corporate conference.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Fashion as Art] Reference

I ` d like 50 Cent rapping (UNINTELLIGIBLE) at my bar mitzvah, that ` s what I ` d like.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 30, 2006] Reference

Israeli government spokesman Avi Pazner, on last week's suicide bombing at a bat mitzvah.    From Wordnik.com.  [Perspectives] Reference

HAMMER: Brooke, I ` m thinking that, you know, if he stays off TV, that would be a mitzvah.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 23, 2009] Reference

The mitzvah of Rosh Hashanah is "L'shmoah kol shofar," to listen to the sound of the shofar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rabbi Laura Geller: Numbers 29:1: Listening to the Sound of the Shofar] Reference

Well, hundreds of guests were at that bat mitzvah celebration in the Israeli city of Hadera.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 18, 2002] Reference

One day a big-shot television executive caught her act while stuck in Derby for a bar mitzvah.    From Wordnik.com.  [The View From The Garage] Reference

Letting Congress make decisions about science is like letting Hannibal Lecter cater a bar-mitzvah.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Beat: If Stem Cells Could Talk...] Reference

The salesman recognized a mitzvah (good deed) in what my wife was doing, and he replied with one of his own.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Christmas Mitzvah] Reference