Sentences with phrase «synagogue which»

An Ashkenazi synagogue which was built in 1850 is still presently located here.

A similar experience can be witnessed in the synagogue which has neighboured East London Mosque for over 100 years.

It was the dying to the old social structure of temple and synagogue which gave a freedom to the Christian community to spread out into the Roman world.

Not exact matches

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.

Matthew 6:5 - 6: «And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men... when thou prayest, enter into thy closet and when thou has shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret...»

I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.

The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, which represents the 1.5 million Conservative Jews in the United States, has just issued a new Torah and commentary, the first for Conservatives in more than 60 years.

Then came the sermon, which was based on one of the most important passages of the New Testament, the one where Jesus teaches at the synagogue in Nazareth and explains exactly what his ministry is all about:

After all, this isn't the Protestantism that many of us grew up in, a Protestantism which answered to many of the harsh criticisms contained in Leithart's essay last fall, «The End of Protestantism»: either militantly convinced that Rome is nothing but a synagogue of Satan, or complacently ignoring her very existence, and also ignoring much of the robust theology of classical Protestantism.

The time is now 1939, after the Munich pact and Kristallnacht, during which throughout Germany and Austria synagogues were set on fire, Jewish stores smashed and looted, and Jews themselves carted off to concentration camps.

You say Jesus attended the «church of his day» which was the Jewish synagogue.

But we have substituted Word without Supper, which is a replication of synagogue worship minus the joy of the resurrection.

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.

Such developments, however, while they immeasurably deepened and expanded the meaning of personal prayer, did not solve the problem of public worship, which the early Christians only temporarily escaped when they left the temple and the synagogue.

I thought: He is «not now that strength which in old days moved heaven and earth,» when, for several years, he accompanied his old blind father to the synagogue and, for an hour, whispered in his ear every word of the prayers the old man did not know by heart, then going off to another service to fulfill his own duty to pray.

But in the meantime the non-religious concerns of the earlier prophets had found new forms of expression in the emerging institution of the synagogue, which pioneered quite a new phase m man's spiritual pilgrimage.

(«Synagogue» is a Greek word which simply means «coming together».)

The word that the author uses in Hebrews 10:25 for «assembling together» is episunagōgē, which could possibly be an allusion to the Jewish Synagogue.

He did not measure himself by the cultural standards of his day, as did some others, who scoffed at the fact that he was a carpenter (Mark 6:3), nor by the greatness of the order of the intellect (his education was that which could be gained at the local synagogue school) Some of the creatures made by the Word of God are greater in these respects than the one who is the Word of God incarnate, and that one is not ashamed of his inferiority.

When a man with a withered hand shows up in the synagogue, Jesus asks a question which everybody knew the answer to.

As interest in the supernatural has dwindled, the vacated churches, synagogues and mosques in the USA were sold off and the proceeds invested in a fund which, under the XXV Amendment to the US Const.itution, could only be used to further scientific education and environmental awareness and protection.

Or did he bring in this teaching because it was part of a universal congregational order, modelled on the synagogue, which he believed that God intended for all churches at all times in the way that the unchanging gospel was intended for all churches at all times?

You, dear friends, can't rely on some wandering, set - up - to - die goat to do your bidding - which is why you are commanded to make public confessions in synagogue during Yom Kippur.

Further Voobus points out that it was neither the Greek Old Testament which became scriptural authority for Hellenistic Christianity nor the Hebrew original text which was translated into Syriac but the scriptures of the Palestinian synagogue, namely, the ancient Palestinian Targumim which came to be used among the Jewish Christians.

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.

He is in sole charge of the rundown synagogue in central Kabul, which looks like any other building from the outside.

The institution through which prophetic existence was effectively transmitted from generation to generation was the synagogue.

Synagogue worship included a regular reading from the law (which was required to be read through every three years) reading and exposition of the prophets.

The clearest embodiment of that general orientation which dominated the synagogues is to be found in the Pharisees.

It is not necessary for us to make a detailed examination of the various sorts of ritual associated with these meals; it will suffice if we see that the Jew worshiped God not only in the synagogue and in the Temple, but also in his home, where families or groups of friends met regularly for a holy supper, often held in connection with great festivals of the Jewish religious year, in which bread and wine, eaten and drunk, were believed to have a peculiar significance in establishing anew a sense of the covenant which God had made with his chosen people.

There is a town called Duras Europa in Syria which was destroyed about 250 AD; both the synagogue and the church in town were covered with scenes from the bible.

Here is WHAT Luke the Physician says about Paul in Acts9: 19,20»... Then was saul (Paul) certain days with the disciples which were at Damascus.And straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God.»

I recount these anecdotes not only to give you a sense of the personality of the man who is in some important respects synonymous with American Jewry and who is responsible for conceiving of some of its major institutions, from the once liberal orthodoxy of the Young Israel movement, to the Reconstructionist movement in Judaism, to the very structure of the American synagogue, which he called a synagogue center, to my own institution, The University of Judaism.

The keynote of the ministry and message of Jesus is summed up in another great passage, this time from his beloved Isaiah which he selected to read in the synagogue on the inaugural day of his ministry:

The scribes and Pharisees take the chief seats in the synagogue, the seats before the ark which holds the sacred scrolls.

«And immediately,» Mark continues (1:23), «there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit,» which Jesus proceeded to exorcize.

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.

From the statement that Jesus returned to Galilee and taught in the synagogues Luke proceeds (4:16 - 30) to the visit to Nazareth, which Mark and Matthew record later.

Samuel Heilman reports a similar phenomenon, which he calls «symbolic murder,» in a study of a synagogue.7

New York City has worked out what may well be a model arrangement with an ecumenical network of 110 churches and synagogues (collectively known as the Partnership for the Homeless) which either open their own doors or provide volunteers, resources and guest referrals.

Luk 4:33 And in the synagogue there was a man, which had a spirit of an unclean devil, and cried out with a loud voice,

I wonder if we are already bringing conclusions to the discussion in assuming that what is translated as church involves assemblies which are separated from the Judaistic synagogue.

As might be expected in a society in which white Anglo - Saxon Protestants are slow to recognize their own ethnicity, the first, and still the best, ethnographies of congregations are Samuel Heilman's study of an orthodox synagogue and Melvin Williams's description of a black Pentecostal church.71 Heilman and Williams conclusively demonstrate the power of even small, marginal congregations to generate among themselves a rich symbolic communication that gives each its meaning and cohesion.

It also found in synagogue - worship, in which in the towns and villages the people gathered on Saturdays to praise their Lord and to receive instruction, a more direct and intimate religious awareness than had been possible in the formal Temple - worship at the central shrine in Jerusalem.

Sometimes, to lay more emphasis on the uniqueness of this «sonship» of Jesus, his birth and infancy, which would seem in fact to have been ordinary and obscure (his home and family were so ordinary that his fellow - townsmen would not accept him as a preacher in their synagogue), were pictured as having been miraculous and attended by wonders and glory.

There is only one point in the New Testament, as far as I know, at which the gospel is preached to those entirely lacking in knowledge of the scriptures (most of the gentiles to whom Paul preached were among the sympathizers of the synagogue, so Paul could presume what George Lindbeck calls «biblical literacy»), and that is Paul's famous address on the Areopagus.

Congress passes a law which says that only three types of religions may exist in our nation — Muslim, Judaism and Wiccan — and only three type of places of worship... Mosque, Synagogue & Sacred Grove.

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.