Sentence examples for traditional observance from inspiring English sources
Titled "Honoring Black History," the concert anticipated the traditional observance of Black History Month by a few days.
Although its founder and director is an Orthodox rabbi and it encourages "traditional" observance, it is not officially affiliated with the Orthodox branch of Judaism.
While ultra-Orthodox Judaism grew more insular, and some varieties of Liberal Judaism moved ritual practice even farther away from traditional observance, a vital centre emerged, running from Reform Judaism to modern Orthodoxy.
Traditional observance of Memorial Day has faded over the years.
Some believe that this straying from traditional observance is a sign of Judaism's imminent demise, small scale tragedies that, someday, will result in a far larger one -- a slow and steady slide into obsolescence, Jews, the "ever-dying" people.
Israel (and traditional observance), as was foretold by the Torah and the prophets thousands of years ago, is the future: "And He will return and gather you from among all of the nations where he has dispersed you.
Western secular Jews often are ignorant of, or choose to neglect, traditional observances.
Many 16th and 17th century Puritans rejected the traditional observances that marked medieval life.
Among Orthodox Jews, who best preserve the traditional observances, contemporary discussion centres mostly on technological advances and their effect on Halakhic practice.
The answer may lie in his social relativism on matters of morality (see above); it is probable that among the things which 'seem right and fine for each city' and which therefore 'are so for that city so long as it maintains them' (Theaetetus 167c) are the prescriptions that it is right to honour the gods by the traditional observances.
Though she describes herself as not particularly religious, she takes the traditional observances of Passover seriously, ridding her house of "hametz," or leavened food, before the holiday, and reflecting on matzo's biblical roots.
