[Sca-cooks] Re: [Sca-cooks]Mitzvah (was "Halal" and "Kosher")

[Phlip]

Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

> Could you explain what "mitzvah" means?? I was under the impression that
it
> was the ritual where a boy becomes a man, bar mitzvah, but I keep on
hearing
> it in reference to lots of things. Does it basicly mean ritual?
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> Leah A. Montgomery

Actually, it means a good deed, in a Godly sense  If you perform a mitzvah,
you have performed a good act in accordance with the covenent with God, who
is actually nameless ;-) A boy's bar mitzvah is actually an opportunity for
him to prove he is a man, by reading the Hebrew of the Laws in front of a
minyon (a minimal grouping of 10 male adults) of other (theoretically
observant )Jews. It shows that he is no longer a child because he has
performed the act of a man. Many acts can be mitzvahs, but Jews, being the
practical sorts that they are, usually require witnesses.

Phlip

 If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
cat.

Never a horse that cain't be rode,
And never a rider who cain't be throwed....