Sentence examples for central commandment from inspiring English sources

In Jewish tradition, two rabbis debate the question of what constitutes the Torah's most central commandment.

Embrace your shadow as an opportunity for growth: The central commandment in the Bible is "And you will love your neighbor as yourself".

He concocted the conceptual First National Church of the Exquisite Panic on his premises, with two central commandments: Live, and Do Not Eat Cars.

One of the central commandments of being a fan is that you cannot switch teams just because you aren't having fun.

For him the central teaching of Judaism resided in the commandment "love your neighbour as yourself".

And it's no use to argue that one religion is right and the others false, for there's no consistent interpretation of morality -- not even of central commandments such as "Thou Shalt Not Kill" -- within any major religion.

No commandments -- a central component of any Jewish holiday -- are recorded.

Fortunately, a closer look at the original context of the words of the Bible can help readers see past these translation mistakes, which range from awkward phrasing to misrepresenting such central themes as the Ten Commandments.

In 2001, the year Moore was first sworn in as chief justice, he arranged for workers to install a two-and-a-half-ton granite monument of the Ten Commandments in the central rotunda of the state courthouse.

Mr. Barnard, the Summum lawyer, said the Ten Commandments did not play a central role in the Mormon faith.

In 1923, legendary filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille built an epic Egyptian dreamscape on California's Central Coast for the silent black-and-white movie "The Ten Commandments". Twenty-one giant sphinxes lined a path to an 800-foot-wide temple.