Sentence examples for ritual law from inspiring English sources

Diverging traditions of ritual, law and practice soon emerged.

Hundreds of niches have already been cleared, the bones either looted or reburied according to ritual law.

Unlike the Romans, who considered ritual law (fas) God-given and social law (lex) man-made, the rabbis believed all Jewish law to be of divine origin.

Though he doesn't observe Jewish ritual law with the same stringency that he did when he was a child, he still identifies with Orthodox Judaism.

True, the prophets spoke of goodness and moral behavior and of the wolf lying down with the lamb, but they also demanded that the Israelites uphold the ritual law and believed wholeheartedly that Jews were the vehicle of God's message.

What was lost by the surrender of a large part of Jewish ritual law, with its stress on purity, was compensated by the triumph of monotheism over Greco-Roman polytheism and the transformation of ethical and spiritual ideas in the Greco-Roman world.

Rabbi Menachem Weissmandl, the other certifier, said he would remove his seal of approval only if the company failed to follow strict procedures for slaughter and packing mandated by Jewish dietary ritual laws, JTA reported.

In his call to take seriously the ritual laws of "old-time" Judaism, particularly the requirement to be mindful and respectful of every taking of life, Podhoretz shows he has perhaps more in common with Peter Singer than he or his readers realize.

I'm not going to suggest that observing kashrut or any ritual laws serves as a panacea against moral turpitude.

Banna believed in Islam as a complete system, which provides divine instruction on everything from daily rituals, law, and politics to matters of the spirit, and to which all other forms of thought and social organization — secularism, nationalism, socialism, liberalism — are alien.

Banna believed in Islam as a complete system, which provides divine instruction on everything from daily rituals, law, and politics to matters of the spirit, and to which all other forms of thought and social organization secularism, nationalism, socialism, liberalism are alien.