Sentence examples for observance matter from inspiring English sources

So little does observance matter, in fact, that "having a ham sandwich on the afternoon of Yom Kippur doesn't make you less Jewish," Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet, chairman of the Rabbinical Council of the United Synagogue, said recently.

Quite frankly, do the laws of the United States mean anything, or is their observance just a matter of convenience?

Both men support abortion rights, but maintain that their religious observance is a private matter.

But the excessive intrusiveness of the live performance, with the music sometimes muffling the spoken dialogue, blunted the cumulative effect: the viewer's involvement in the sequence became a matter of observance, not participation.

To Rabbi Mintz, that paucity betrayed a Jewish reluctance to bring an abstruse matter of ritual observance into the realm of public policy — in the form of municipal zoning or planning boards, or city councils.

And in order to encourage the observance of justice in the matter of contracts, he hit upon a device which was unknown to all who have established the most celebrated institutions.

Rumi's popularity derives in part from the fact that he taught that religion is less a matter of external observance than an intimate personal relationship with God.

It perhaps helps that matters of religious observance are attended to, grotesquely, in the film itself.

Prisoners began coming to his cell and soliciting his fatwas, or opinions, generally on matters of everyday observance.

Orthodox and Conservative leaders had always sharply disapproved of the Reform movement's liberal attitudes on such matters as Sabbath observance and dietary laws, but they had always accepted all Reform Jews as Jews.

To the Sports Editor: Being Jewish is a matter of practice and observance.