Sentence examples for jerusalem temple from inspiring English sources

Rather than squat down with a placard outside the Jerusalem temple, he staged his protest within its walls, and it was a violent rather than peaceful one.

In accordance with its admonitions, the pagan altars and idols in the Temple were removed, rural sanctuaries ("high places") all the way into Samaria were destroyed, and the Jerusalem Temple was made the sole official place of worship.

The Pharisees, even while the cult of the Jerusalem Temple was still in existence, sought to reduce priestly exclusiveness by enlarging the scope of sacral rules to include, as far as possible, all the people.

The result will be a 50-minute family concert on Sunday with commentary by the poet Karl Kirchwey, who describes how a tiny amount of oil miraculously burned in the Jerusalem temple for eight days.

According to the Talmudic sources, including the tractate Sanhedrin, the Great Sanhedrin was a court of 71 sages that met on fixed occasions in the Lishkat La-Gazit ("Chamber of the Hewn Stones") in the Jerusalem Temple and that was presided over by two officials (zugot, or "pair"), the nasi and the av bet din.

The most ardently articulated statement of the crucial role of the land of Israel and the Jerusalem Temple is found in the Sefer ha-Kuzari of Judah ha-Levi, in which the two are seen as absolutely indispensable for the proper relationship between God and his people.

The Sistine Chapel itself was built, in the fifteenth century, as an intended exact replica of the Temple of Jerusalem not the second temple, which the Romans destroyed in 70 A.D., but the original temple, the Temple of Solomon, with its proportions deduced from Biblical text in the book of Ezekiel.

Probably experiencing this majestic imagery that was enhanced by the actual setting and the ceremonial and ritualistic objects of the Jerusalem Temple, Isaiah was mystically transported from the earthly temple to the heavenly temple, from the microcosm to the macrocosm, from sacred space in profane time to sacred space in sacred time.

JERUSALEM — The Israeli police on Wednesday detained the Palestinians' top Muslim cleric for questioning about disturbances a day earlier at a fiercely contested holy site in Jerusalem known to Jews as Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary.

JERUSALEM — Prophecy and pragmatism.

JERUSALEM — The vision was ambitious.