Sentence examples for on a sabbath from inspiring English sources

This article deals with one who is praying alone on an ordinary weekday (not on a Sabbath, holiday, or fast day).

A woman from a kibbutz makes them think by listing all the things she can't do on a sabbath.

In 1980, just after Jews moved back into Hebron, six Israelis were killed, also on a Sabbath eve.

The killings evoked a notorious ambush in Hebron in 1980, also on a Sabbath eve, in which six Jews were killed.

On a Sabbath morning in 1820, Ephraim Lyon, a 62-year-old farmer known as "the hardest man in town to drink under the table," got a brainstorm as he watched people walking toward the Congregational Church that regularly denounced him from the pulpit.

-- It was love fundamentalism that urged Jesus to heal the man's withered hand on a Sabbath.

He put on a Black Sabbath CD — "post-Ozzie, I'm afraid".

Sometimes we experience a Yom Kippur on Shabbat -- a Sabbath of Sabbaths of Sabbaths!

Wearing a bonnet, explained several customers at Silksation Plus, a women's clothing store, is not seen as a violation of the prohibition against carrying on the Sabbath because a wig is considered virtually part of the body — if it gets wet the skull gets wet — and so a bonnet is entirely permissible, unlike the man's plastic covering for the head.

"You better believe this would not have happened there, with the Hasidic Jews," she said, adding, "If it can't happen on a Jewish Sabbath, it can't happen on a Christian Sabbath".

The closing lines of Psalm 92, traditionally read on the Sabbath, took on a special resonance here.