Sentences with phrase «synagogue life»

Heilman, Synagogue Life, xii.

Samuel C. Heilman, Synagogue Life; Melvin D. Williams, Community in a Black Pentecostal Church: An Anthropological Study (Pittsburgh: Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 1974).

Not exact matches

Not only does Glick, who lives in Jerusalem, stand at the front of synagogues and sing solemn prayers on Rosh Hashana, but he is an EMT for United Hatazalah, a volunteer emergency service.

But all three — Abraham, the unnamed woman and the synagogue leader — possessed a living faith and sensed that God would perform a sign of new life for them.

Most people don't realize that during Christ's life, week in and week out, He could be found every Sabbath in the synagogue.

I am convinced that each church and synagogue could well form an organization to assist widows and widowers in reconstructing their lives and their homes.

In synagogue and church and home, most citizens have used the Bible both for salvation and for the ordering of life — voluntarily, through persuasion, not by legal establishment.

He lived his life under the ceremonies of the Temple and prayed and taught in the synagogues of Israel.

Even if I were to equate attendance at Christian church and attendance at Jewish synagogue, I could not have followed Jesus» example had I lived in his day — because I am a woman.

Reared in Galilee, his spiritual life had been nourished in the synagogue.

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.

A chapter in The Costs of Living tells how he helped found a liberal synagogue.

They know about the anti-Jewish polemics of certain church fathers; about the forced baptisms, especially of children; about the church council decree that sanctioned the removal of such children from their parents; about a papal edict encouraging raids on Jewish synagogues by the faithful; about the expulsion of all Jews from a country like Spain; about Luther's hate language directed against Jews when they did not convert according to his timetable; about the prohibition against Jews living in Calvin's Geneva; and about all the cruelties Christians have felt justified in perpetrating against the people they called «Christ - killers.»

But before turning to Jesus» sayings, let me at least say what one can infer from Q about his life: He grew up in a small village of lower or southern Galilee called in (Q 4:16) Nazara, but always called Nazareth elsewhere in the canonical Gospels, a hamlet perhaps too small even to have had a local synagogue in which Jesus might have learned to read the Hebrew scriptures.

Yet churches and synagogues evoke awareness of the cycles of life; they call to mind earnest prayer and resolve, the observances of birth, marriage and death.

He was, of course, always more neo-orthodox than orthodox in his beliefs, and his essay on the concept of «basic Judaism» shows him struggling, as so many other thoughtful modern Jews do, to extract what is enduring and imperishable in the Jewish understanding of life: «groping to establish rapport with the Jewish tradition, standing at the synagogue door.»

And if we're going to live as he did, we would congregate in the «synagogue» as well as teach and converse with others.

Sir Martin also became more religious toward the end of his life, attending an Orthodox synagogue in London.

See Edwin H. Friedman, Generation to Generation: Family Process in Church and Synagogue (New York: Guilford, 1985) for an extended discussion of the effect of family experience and roles on the life of a congregation and its leaders.

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

Our Lord foreshadowed the institution of the Eucharist by the miracle of the loaves, then he preached at length to the crowd who followed him to the synagogue in Capernaum, telling them that he was the true Bread from heaven and that this Bread was his flesh which they must eat if they wished to inherit eternal life.

He was writing, not for a group within a group, the Palestinian church living on under the shadow of the Jewish synagogue and a part, though a somewhat segregated part, of Jewish society, observing its own peculiar Halakak; Mark was writing for a martyr church in the world's metropolis, under the darkening shadow of a tyrant's throne and in the midst of a corrupt society of which the church could not possibly form a part.

He most likely enjoyed life, attended the local synagogue school, and learned a trade.

We see in his example how He lived aboved the Synagogue and spread the Goodnews of God, not bound by the Synagogue but the TRUTH — doing good all over the world and making Himself example, but today people preach what they don't do and brain wash people to be and remain in a particular organisation called religion.

Participation in the life of a church or synagogue, and in the century - spanning heritage of a couple's religious tradition, often stimulates and nurtures the development of spiritual intimacy.

Several books of the contextual sort also considered the suburban environment: Andrew W. Greeley, The Church and the Suburbs (New York: Sheed & Ward, 1959); Frederick A. Shippey, Protestantism in Suburban Life (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1964); Gaylord Noyce, The Responsible Suburban Church (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1970); W. Widick Schroeder, Victor Obenhaus, Larry Jones, and Thomas Sweetser, Suburban Religion: Churches and Synagogues in the American Experience (Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1974).

But this is where 2,500 years of living with the Scriptures, in the synagogue and in the church, seems to require some choices of emphasis in Bible interpretation — choices which we may call the principles of theology.

In response, these churches, temples, synagogues and mosques produce the cultural material that enables their members and adherents to locate themselves with respect to the places and time in which they currently live, to identify with others, to find their moral bearings, and to achieve some measure of efficacy with respect to their own needs and aspirations.

«I believe in an America where government is not permitted to dictate the religious life of our people; where religion is a private matter between individuals and God, between families and their churches and synagogues, with no room for politicians in between,» he states.

As the periphery man He challenged the idolatry in religion and politics and confirmed the deeper tradition of «God, be merciful to me, a sinner» in the life of the synagogue and the church.

This is done by churches and synagogues and mosques and charities that warm the cold of life.

It should be borne in mind, in the second place, that there continued to exist within the Islamic Society churches, monasteries, synagogues, and temples serving Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians, and others; that all these survived, not as ghost communities or depressed classes, but as communities of living men and women who pursued their callings, professed their faith openly, and entered into polemics in defense of it; who continued to develop their religious, philosophical, and scientific legacies; and who were at all times in communication with their Muslim neighbors.

Yes Jesus lived, ate and drank with the shunned, but he also spent allot of time in the synagogues even if it was just for the sake of upsetting the pious.

As an observant Jew in the strict Pharisee tradition, he would have learnt the Law from the elders of his community and lived the enclosed life of piety in family and synagogue that a religious upbringing entailed.

I'd really rather you didn't build multi million - dollar synagogues / churches / temples / mosques / shrines to my noodly goodness when the money could be better spent (take your pick): Ending poverty Curing diseases Living in peace, loving with passion, and lowering the cost of cable I might be a complex - carbohydrate omniscient being, but I enjoy the simple things in life.

The institutions of Conservative Judaism — its synagogues, its summer camps, its youth organizations, its sisterhoods and men's organizations, its seminaries, its rabbinate — will live on.

Editor's note: Since 2004, Shmuel Herzfeld has been the Rabbi of Ohev Sholom - The National Synagogue, the oldest and largest Orthodox synagogue in Washington, D.C.. His first book will be published within a year, titled: The Relevance of the Torah for our ModeSynagogue, the oldest and largest Orthodox synagogue in Washington, D.C.. His first book will be published within a year, titled: The Relevance of the Torah for our Modesynagogue in Washington, D.C.. His first book will be published within a year, titled: The Relevance of the Torah for our Modern Lives.

I'm living in a different state than my family members and won't be attending synagogue tomorrow (sadly, I'll be at work)... but I plan on making this tomorrow evening to get in the spirit while I reflect on what an awesome year it's been, and contemplate my hopes and goals for the next.

And single parents who don't live near family may choose to participate in community groups — including single parent support groups, churches, and synagogues — which champion the entire family.

Kasich delivered a personal address about life and faith Saturday before a crowd of hundreds at a synagogue in Great Neck.

Find a community (whether it be a church, synagogue, mosque or non-denominational support group) that celebrates the joy of life and uplifts during your darkest hour.

You don't have to go to the church, synagogue, or mosque to experience the health benefits of a rich spiritual life.

Families live close together in small neighborhoods, since observant Jews do not drive on the Sabbath and must be within walking distance of the house of worship, called a synagogue or temple.

A rabbi, Rav Kruschka (Anton Lesser), delivers a sermon at a North London synagogue about angels and beasts, free will, and choosing the tangled lives we live.

Antony and the Johnsons, performing live at the Sixth and I Synagogue in Washington, D.C. Joel Didriksen / kingpinphoto.

Bill Callahan, performing live at the Sixth And I Synagogue in Washington, D.C. Gabriella Garcia - Pardo / NPR Music hide caption

Joanna Newsom and her band perform live at the 6th and I Synagogue in Washington, D.C. Shantell Mitchell hide caption

Students work as a group to complete this investigation before reflecting of the differing roles of the synagogue within Jewish life.

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There are only two dozen Jews that still live there but you can visit India's oldest functioning synagogue in the trinket - lined Jew Street in the pretty Mattancherry neighborhood, dubbed «Jew Town».