10 easy mitzvos you can do right now

Put on tefillin

what are tefillin?

Install a mezuza

Best security system

Light shabbat candles

learn why?

Learn some torah

Where do i start?

Give some tzedaka

you mean charity?

Buy holy books

What to choose?

Eat kosher

Whats kosher?

love your fellow as yourself

WDYM "Love"?

Jewish education

how can i even get started?

Family purity

For the married ones

whats a mitzvah?

Mitzvah means commandment. A mitzvah is one of the 613 Divine instructions to the Jew contained in the Torah. The word also means connection: a deed that connects the human being who performs it with G‑d, who commanded it.

Before the Rebbe's mitzvah campaign, the mitzvah was a private deed, performed by the "religious" Jew at home or in the synagogue. So it was only natural that the Rebbe's mitzvah campaign, initiated in the late 60s and early 70s, raised many an eyebrow: "Tefillin on a hippie?" "What's the point of doing one mitzvah on the way to lunch in a non-kosher restaurant?" Mitzvot were then seen as the details that made up a religious Jew's lifestyle — pointless when not part of the whole package.

The Rebbe saw things differently. As a connection between man and G‑d, as a bridge between Creator and creation, a mitzvah is a deed of cosmic significance, a deed of infinite value unto itself. Citing Maimonides, the Rebbe repeated time and again: a single person performing a single mitzvah could be the deed that tips the scales and brings redemption to the entire world and all of creation.

So the Rebbe issued a call to every Jew: Even if you are not fully committed to a Torah life, do something. Begin with a mitzvah — any mitzvah; its value will not be diminished by the fact that there are others which you are not prepared to do.

The Rebbe also suggested ten possible "beginner's mitzvot" — precepts which, because of their centrality to the Torah's guide to life, are ideally suited for a first experience of the mitzvah connection. ↴
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