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abbr.= abbreviated |
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To
facilitate contemporary
mitzvah-observance, the venerable Chafetz
Chayim complied his Sefer HaMitzvah the
positive and negative commandments
applicate in our time, along with his own
incisive commentary. |
Mitzvah (Hebrew: מצווה)
"commandment"; plural, mitzvot; from צוה,
tzavah, "command") is a word used in
Judaism to refer to (a) the commandments,
of which there are 613, given in the Torah
(the first five books of the Hebrew Bible)
or (b) any Jewish law at all. The term can
also refer to the fulfillment of a mitzvah
as defined above.
The term mitzvah has also come to express
any act of human kindness, such as the
burial of the body of an unknown person.
According to the teachings of Judaism, all
moral laws are, or are derived from,
divine commandments.
Rabbis are divided between those who seek
the purpose of the mitzvot and those who
do not question them. The former argue
that if the reason for each mitzvah could
be determined, people might try to achieve
what they see as the purpose of the
mitzvah, without actually performing the
mitzvah itself.
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