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Mitzvah

Lit. Commandment.
It is traditionally held that there are 613 mitzvot (plural) in Judaism, both postive commandments (mandating actions) and negative commandments (prohibiting actions). Mitzvah has also become colloquially assumed to mean the idea of a “good deed.”

Synonyms: mitzvot, mitzva

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