Sentences with phrase «jewish faith and practice»

Indeed, not long before, the Idumeans (the descendants of ancient Edom), from whom the Herods came, were induced by force to embrace the Jewish faith and practice.

What is significant for our present discussion is that Sabbath - keeping was so uniform in Israelite life that it became almost the trademark of Jewish faith and practice.

Not exact matches

... What has happened over time is that people were forced to believe in the one of the Abrahamic faiths through Holy wars, torture, Crusades and Inquisitions, and as people practiced this chosen people ideology, whether Christian, Catholic, Jew or Muslim, which was built on the principle of remaining segregated from the un-chosen, their faith urged them to remain segregated, where they lived and never to marry anyone outside their faith... and even in death there is a history of segregation which to this day continues, try having a non Jewish person buried in Jewish cemetery.

The Jesus we meet in this book reverently practiced his Jewish faith as he grew in strength and wisdom.

And as for Jewish holidays, do nt get me started, a huge proportion of jews do nt practice their faith, and some are religious two days a yeAnd as for Jewish holidays, do nt get me started, a huge proportion of jews do nt practice their faith, and some are religious two days a yeand some are religious two days a year.

Daniel, the gifted Jewish dream interpreter — gifted, surely, because of his rootage in faith — counsels Nebuchadnezzar to practice mercy and justice (4:27).

The Jewish people, more faithful than any similar group in the keeping of the moral laws they share with the Christians, more assiduous in the practice of repentance, more diligent in forgiveness, have indeed survived to this day and so demonstrated in a fashion the social relevance of their faith; but it would be difficult to describe the sort of existence the Jewish race has enjoyed as «fullness of life.»

Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer, as you'll recall, aspired to be the first Jewish president, although he really isn't practicing and married outside the faith.

Religion and the freedom to practice it only recently became a focus for Mayor Bloomberg, whose attachment to his own Jewish faith hasn't been front - and - center.

It is for the serious or practicing religious person a very serious matter and was indeed what sparked the first speed dating event ever - by a Jewish person who realised the importance of mising and matching in the faith to provide happy and stable relationships.

I'm not Jewish myself, so I'm very naive to the culture and their religious practices, and found it a interesting insight to a, I'm sure, small portion of what it may be like to be of Jewish faith.

Groups such as the Christian Legal Society, Catholic Lawyers» Guild, St. Thomas More Society, International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists, and National Association of Muslim Lawyers engage thousands of lawyers on questions regarding the relationship between faith and legal practice.