These nonprofit religious charities may still want to draw on spiritual motivation, maintain ties to fellow believers, provide a spur and a vehicle for that community's generosity and observe the precepts of their traditions.
A religious folktale and a Judaicized version of the story of the grateful dead, it relates how Tobit, a pious Jew exiled to Nineveh in Assyria, observed the precepts of Hebrew Law by giving alms and by burying the dead.
A religious folktale and a Judaicized version of the story of the grateful dead, it relates how, a pious Jew exiled to Nineveh in Assyria, observed the precepts of Hebrew Law by giving alms and by burying the dead.
The failure of senior scientists to observe the precepts of community, respect, and altruism, she believes, has deprived some young scientists of the opportunity to learn the rules and practices of ethical research and has undermined the situation of many early-career scientists in today's opportunity-starved research scene.
Since, however, meditation on the Torah "night and day" was a practical impossibility, the Shema became a substitute for Torah study or, more exactly, the minimum requirement for observing the precept.
The more pious laymen may vow to observe the eight precepts for the duration of the uposatha.
And it may just have found another in Paddy Campbell, not least because he has observed the chief precept for any young writer – which is to go and do something interesting first.
IM practitioners always observe the Hippocratic precept of "First, do no harm," relying in simpler interventions whenever possible and turning to more drastic ones only when the former fail to produce desired outcomes.
Laymen are to observe the first five precepts (pañca-sīla) at all times.
All public bodies are meant to observe the "Nolan rules", precepts of the committee on standards on public life, set up by John Major and now chaired by Sir Nigel Wicks.
