He called his a storefront a shul, introduced a standard Hebrew prayer book and weekly Sabbath Torah readings, discouraged excessive shows of emotion during worship, insisted on separate seating for women and men and instituted a modified version of kosher dietary laws.
On the other hand, when it is a matter of recognizing God's authority, the state can impose uniform standards of prayer.
To hear the Hebrew of standard Jewish prayers surface within the church-conjuring sound of one of his madrigals is to experience the truly delicious shock of the unexpected and very nearly inexplicable.
For some religions, like Buddhism, meditation is a standard form of prayer (or, sometimes, prayer is a standard form of meditation).
Six times a day they meet in the chapel to recite Old Testament Psalms and standard Roman Catholic prayers, but it is contemplative life that allows individual prayer to develop subconsciously.
Indeed, his arrest signals a crisis in a cherished American narrative: skilled worker, honest by most standards, person of prayer, a family oriented business owner.
Two dozen visitors sat meditating for an hour in silence, a standard feature of the prayer ritual.
Those words are appended to her six-line abbreviation of the album's title song, the Gershwin standard reimagined as a prayer for divine assistance from "a little lamb who's lost in the woods".
Dr. Groopman spoke of the meaning he derived from a Jewish prayer, a standard part of the Sabbath service, that seeks the healing of the soul and the body, in that order.
