Sentences with phrase «from synagogue»

One call, for example, reached the New York - based Architecture Research Office from a synagogue's board member asking if architect Stephen Cassell would be «interested in designing a really modern chicken coop?»

Dutch philosopher Benedict de Spinoza was expelled from his synagogue for his rationalist ideas about God, which he later published in his 1677 work, Ethics.

Though raised in the Jewish faith and receiving a rabbinical education, Spinoza was expelled from the synagogue at Amsterdam for defending heretical opinions in 1656.

No exceptions to the strict ban are given even for established donation centers with a healthy track record such as Ohab Zedek, an Upper West Side Orthodox congregation which has donated freshly cooked and nutrient rich foods left over from synagogue events for over ten years.

At the evening I met a woman from my synagogue, who asked me what I do.

Though rare, excommunication might take place when the offender was excluded from synagogue and temple for an indefinite period of time.

These were the words of a rabbi from a synagogue in Bosnia Herzegovina...

In the Christian thinking of the first century, therefore, the liberation of church from synagogue inaugurated a new era; the apologetic necessity of being persuasive to Gentiles overbore the tendency to be content with Hebraisms; and even in the New Testament, predominantly Jewish though it is in its backgrounds, one sees the beginning of that larger mental hospitality which led at last to the overwhelming influence of Greek thought on Christian theology.

When they were driven out from synagogue and temple, they faced a disruption in their religious thought and practise comparable with the shock of the Exile to the Jews over six centuries before.

The temple was no longer theirs; they were denied the sacrifices; they were outlawed from both cult and legal system; they were expelled from the synagogue and regarded as aliens by the Jewish community.

About A.D. 85, Judaism declared Christians heretics and took steps to exclude them from the synagogue.

The New Testament as a whole comes to us out of this completed separation of church from synagogue, with Christianity rapidly becoming more Gentile than Jewish.

Although his parents were afraid of being ostracized simply because their son had been healed, he was willing to endure criticism and mistreatment and even expulsion from the synagogue rather than disparage Jesus.

Curiously enough, by placing the event after the Sabbath in Capernaum, Luke implies (4:38 - 39) that at least one of the four already knew Jesus, for Jesus had gone to Simon's house from the synagogue at Capernaum.

Now He arose from the synagogue and entered Simon's house.

In 16:1 - 4 the hostility of the Jews is made even more definite: it will involve excommunication from the synagogue and even death for the disciples.

Probably a lot of them had lost their job, because the Jewish leaders had put a ban on them or they were excommunicated from the synagogue.

It is somewhat unlikely they even sat down to think about how they should function, but simply adopted the patterns and structure they already knew from the Synagogue.

In contrast with the priest from the temple, and the scribe from the synagogue, Jesus was listened to gladly by the common people, and finally it was not the irreligious, but the religious authorities who had Jesus put to death, for He constituted too severe a threat to the vested interests of religion.

Despite the Jubilee in 2016 that Christ prophesied from the synagogue in Nazareth when HE quote Isaiah 61 into Luke 4 will happen before September is concluded.

Many commentators think that Jesus» withdrawal from the synagogue at this point marked his abandonment of the old Israel and his inauguration of the new Israel through the church.

The opportunity to try this significant experiment in an inter-racial, international religion of converted individuals was given to the early Christians and indeed was forced upon them by Judaism itself when it drove them from the synagogue.

Forcibly ejecting Jesus from the synagogue, they took him «to the brow of the hill on which their city was built,» intending to throw him down into the valley.

The trip from the synagogue to Georgetown University School of Medicine took only twenty minutes, but ideologically I might as well have been traveling to the antipodes.

Expulsion from the synagogue and social disgrace is a high price to pay for having a son especially blessed by God.

The image in the tweet is reportedly taken from a synagogue in Tehran.

Most of what is recorded about Christ's «church» is about parties with tax collectors, women, military occupiers, et al, who were effectively excluded from the synagogues.

By that time those who believed in Jesus were being expelled from some synagogues (John16: 2).6

He speaks of Jews of conscience traveling in exile from «the cathedrals of modern Jewish life — from the synagogues and Holocaust memorials.»

It not so subtly describes how and why the baptized got tossed from their synagogues in those early decades, and who would serve as a new community for them once they'd been cut loose from family and friends.

But the Jews would expel them from the synagogues.

Not exact matches

From there, he's off to Atlanta to give a talk at a synagogue.

At a synagogue just a mile from where she had been gunned down, Meadow Pollack, 18, lay in a plain wooden coffin, closed in accordance with Jewish tradition.

Last week, Maryland's second highest court ruled that the stormwater remediation fee — sometimes derisively called the «rain tax» — can legally be collected from the Shaarei Tfiloh Congregation, which owns two neighboring synagogues and a parking lot in Liberty Heights near Druid Hill Park.

In every single Synagogue since the beginning of Time, Women and Men are separated in their seating arrangements so that they do NOT distract each others» attentions from their prayer in the temple.

One immigrant tells of how exhilaration «was soon replaced by anger and disbelief when he discovered that a local synagogue in Washington Heights denied him admission to its Yom Kippur services because he had not purchased a ticket, even though he explained that he had only recently been liberated from a concentration camp.

from what I gather from visiting synagogues, Mormonism is more about raising families than it is about spirituality

He was circumcised, followed the law, taught from the Torah both on the hillsides and in the synagogues.

Luke adds that he was «filled with the power of the Spirit» when he returned to Galilee, and that when he read from the scroll of Isaiah in the synagogue at Nazareth he began with the passage that said, «The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor» (Luke 4:14 - 18).

In Matthew (23:34) Jesus continues, «Therefore I send you prophets and wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from town to town.»

Each week in synagogue we publicly read a few chapters from the Torah, starting with Genesis Ch.

«Therefore, behold, I AM SENDING you prophets and wise men and scribes; some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city,» Matthew 23:34

At the beginning, their «psalms and hymns and spiritual songs» (Colossians 3:16: Ephesians 5:19) were probably taken over and adapted from the older heritage, and while the evidence on this matter is scant, the devotional services of the early churches doubtless leaned heavily on the Old Testament, especially the Psalter, and even on the customs of the synagogue.

Seven in ten white evangelicals said churches, synagogues, and other houses of worship contribute to solving social problems (70 %), down from 86 percent in 2008.

The early Christian movement spread first of all in the synagogue and derived its earliest forms and practices from it before being eventually cast out to live an independent existence.

Thus, when you do some act of charity, do not announce it with a flourish of trumpets, as the hypocrites do in synagogue and in the streets to win admiration from men.

Jessica Youseffi, a community organize from the Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice, sings the praises of an organization the attempts to make synagogues more open to the LGBT community.

Because Jesus was Jewish, He obeyed the Mosaic Law, worshipped God in the Jewish Temple, attended a Jewish Synagogue, taught from the Jewish Scriptures, and even obeyed many of the Jewish oral traditions.

... Those who have been driven out from their homes unjustly only because they said, «Our Lord is God» - And if God did not repel some men by means of others, there would surely have been pulled down cloisters and churches and synagogues and mosques, wherein the name of God is oft commemorated» (22:40 - 41).

Matthew reads, «And he went on from there, and entered their synagogue.»