Sentence examples for house of study from inspiring English sources
He was referring not to a particular synagogue or school or house of study.
The types of schools ranged from the primary school to the advanced "house of study" and more formal academy (yeshiva), the synagogue, and the Jewish court.
Many Jews will spend it at temple or in a house of study, meditating, reading Torah and chanting contemplative psalms together or quietly to themselves.
What do you really love about Islam?" I was asked in a course on Islam for Jews, a course I affectionately called "studying Qur'an in the Beit Midrash" (a beit midrash is a Jewish house of study).
Its traditional functions are reflected in three Hebrew synonyms for synagogue: bet ha-tefilla ("house of prayer"), bet ha-kneset ("house of assembly"), and bet ha-midrash ("house of study").
Intimately connected with its function as a bet din ("house of judgment") was that of a bet midrash ("house of study"); the sages of the Sanhedrin were anxious to gather and train students well versed in Jewish law so that they could participate in deliberations conducted by the Sanhedrin or by local courts under its jurisdiction.
He was sent to a Jesuit house of studies in Córdoba, Argentina, as spiritual director, yet these were wilderness years for him.
In the summer of 1248, Albertus was sent to Cologne to organize the first Dominican studium generale ("general house of studies") in Germany.
Jurisdictionally, the Scots belonged to the Franciscan province of England, whose principal house of studies was at the University of Oxford, where Duns Scotus apparently spent 13 years (1288 1301) preparing for inception as master of theology.
He lived and worked at the Saulchoir, the famous Dominican house of studies that had been relocated from France to Belgium in 1903 and then returned to France in 1937.
In 1946, postgraduate studies took him to the Sorbonne in Paris and to Le Saulchoir, a nearby Dominican house of studies, where he encountered Marie-Dominique Chenu and Yves Congar, pioneers of the "new theology" that would be a major influence at the Second Vatican Council.
