zechut

alternative zchut · alternative zechus · alternative zekhut

1. Judaismfortunate opportunity, privilege

   May you have the zechus to be present when the next Rebbe lights it for the first time

   2002 November 20, Henry Goodman, “Why no good music for adults on Hanukkah?”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet)

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   And if you look hard enough, you will usually find that there is a zchut, that everybody has some part of his or her life that is good and redeeming

   1984, Samuel Chiel, Living Courageously, page 89

   What a zechut it is to have one's Torah viewpoint discussed and even perhaps helping to guide future leaders of Jewish people.

   1993, Simcha Cohen, How Does Jewish Law Work?, page xii

   Boy, do I wish I had gone early this erev Y"K!! (And how I miss the couple of times I had the zekhut to dip in the ARI's mikvah! A [freezing] mekhaye!)

   2002 September 17, Dr. Shlomo Argamon (Engelson), “tevilah *on* yom hakippurim”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet)