Word Finder - sabbath

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Saturday, observed in Judaism and some Christian denominations as a day of rest and worship.

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Sunday, observed in most of Christianity as a day of rest and worship.

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Friday, observed in Islam as a day of rest and worship.

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There are three Sabbaths–Friday (Muslim), Saturday (Jewish), and Sunday (Christian).

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A meeting of witches. (Also called a witches' sabbath, sabbat or black sabbath.)

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Among the ancient Jews and Hebrews, the seventh year, when the land was left fallow.

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As most of the records appealed to are from temple archives, it may be expected that the Sabbath days would show an increased number of records.

But this certainly was not the leading point of view with the mass of the Rabbins; 1 and at any rate it is quite certain that the synagogue is a post-exilic institution, and therefore that the Sabbath in old Israel must have been entirely different from the Sabbath of the Scribes.

Attitude of Jesus.--So far, therefore, as the Sabbath existed for any end outside itself it was an institution to help every Jew to learn the law, and from this point of view it is.

Hosea even takes it for granted that in captivity the Sabbath will be suspended, like all the other feasts, because in his day a feast implied a sanctuary.

The grammatical form of shabbath suggests a transitive sense, "the divider," and apparently indicates the Sabbath as dividing the month.

The rules of the Scribes enumerated thirty-nine main kinds of work forbidden on the Sabbath, and each of these prohibitions gave rise to new subtilties.

But Jesus further maintains that this view of the law as a whole, and the interpretation of the Sabbath law which it involves, can be historically justified from the Old Testament.

A more directly religious element, it is true, was introduced by the practice of attending the synagogue service; but it is to be The grammatical inflexions of the word "Sabbath" would show that it is a feminine form, properly shabbat-t for shabbat-t.

Luria afterwards gave to the Sabbath a mystic beauty such as it had never before possessed.

The general position which He takes up, that "the Sabbath is made for man and not man for the Sabbath," 2 is only a special application of the wider principle that the law is not an end in itself but a help towards the realization in life of the great ideal of love to God and man, which is the sum of all true religion.

The Sabbath did not share the same fate, but with the abolition of local sacrifices it became for most Israelites an institution of humanity divorced from ritual.

In like manner the special ritual at the temple prescribed for the Sabbath by the Pentateuchal law was not regarded as any part of the hallowing of the sacred day; on the contrary, the rule was that, in this regard, "Sabbath was not kept in the sanctuary."

As it stands in these ancient laws, the Sabbath is not at all the unique thing which it was made to be by the Scribes.

This conception of the Sabbath, however, necessarily underwent an important modification when the local sanctuaries were abolished under the "Deuteronomic" reform, and those sacrificial rites and feasts which in Hosea's time formed the essence of every act of religion were limited to the central altar, which most men could visit only at rare intervals.

From this time forward the new moons, which till then had been at least as important as the Sabbath and were celebrated by sacrificial feasts as occasions of religious gladness, fall into insignificance, except in the conservative temple ritual.

We therefore hold that the law of the seventh-day Sabbath goes back to the Mosaic age.

If the Sabbath involved abstention from all such business as recorded in dated documents and always fell on these days, then the 7th, &c., should show a marked falling off in the number of dated documents.

Such business as did not profane the Sabbath according to Babylonian ideas cannot be quoted against their observance of their Sabbath.

The difference between this and the later law is that the seventh year is not called a Sabbath, and that there is no indication that all land was to lie fallow on the same year.

Hence the world will last for six thousand years of toil and labour; then will come one thousand years of Sabbath rest for the people of God in the kingdom of the Messiah."

The entire world will become a vast monastery in that day, which will be the resting-season, the sabbath of humanity.

Life will be an everlasting feast, a Sabbath without end.

That it was proper to wear special garments (or at least to rearrange one's weekday clothes) on the Jewish sabbath was recognized in the Talmud, and Mahommedans, after discussing at length the most suitable raiment for prayer, favoured the use of a single simple garment (Bukhari, viii.).

There is a body of Seventh Day Adventists who observe the old Sabbath (Saturday) rather than the Christian Sunday.

The presbytery of Glasgow issued a pastoral letter on the subject of Sunday trains and other infringements of the Sabbath.

He showed great hostility to the Puritan sabbath and supported the reissue of the Book of Sports, especially odious to that party, and severely reprimanded Chief Justice Richardson for his interference with the Somerset wakes.

The widow then loosens and removes the shoe, throwing it some distance, and spits on the ground, repeating thrice the Biblical formula "So shall it be done," &c. Ilalisah, which is still common among orthodox Jews, must not take place on the Sabbath, a holiday, or the eve of either, or in the evening.

It would appear, however, that Cerinthus laid stress on the rite of circumcision and on the observance of the Sabbath.

Thus the reason assigned for the institution of the Sabbath in Exodus is drawn from the creation, and agrees with Gen.

The distinction of a permanent and a transitory element in the law of the Sabbath is found, not only in Luther and Melanchthon, but in Calvin and other theologians of the Reformed church.

Both the light and the spices would readily fit into the conception of the Sabbath "Over-soul" of the mystics.

The tribe of Levi had also been miraculously guided, from near Babylon, to Havila, where they were enclosed and protected by the mystic river Sambation or Sabbation, which on the Sabbath, though calm, was veiled in impenetrable mist, while on other days it ran with a fierce untraversable current of stones and sand.

No crusade ever had a truer laureate than the author of " The Virginia Slave Mother," " The Pastoral Letter " - one of his stinging ballads against a time-serving Church- " A Sabbath Scene," and " The Slaves of Martinique."

The practice of stated fasting was not in any other case enjoined by the law; and it is generally understood to have been forbidden on Sabbath.

Furber he edited Hymns and Choirs (1860), and with Professor Park and Lowell Mason The Sabbath Hymn Book (1859).

Passing on into still later periods, Saturn's day was associated with the Jewish sabbath, Sunday with the Lord's Day, Tuesday with Tiw, the god of war, corresponding to Mars of the Romans and to the Nergal of the Babylonians.

After this "morrow after the Sabbath" seven weeks are to be reckoned, and when we reach the morrow after the seventh Sabbath fifty days have been enumerated.

This elaborate ceremonial connected with the wave-offering (developed in the post-exile period) took place on the morrow of the seventh Sabbath called 1 On the critical questions involved in these ritual details of Lev.

The orthodox later Jews assumed that the Sabbath in Lev.

Among those of New Haven are the prohibition of trial by jury, the infliction of the death penalty for adultery, and of the same penalty for conspiracy against the jurisdiction, the strict observance of the Sabbath enjoined, and heavy fines for " concealing or entertaining Quaker or other blasphemous hereticks."

The one in the chancel is a warning against Sabbath breakers.

He talked like a Puritan about the Sabbath; and then he had a crucifix in his room.

They identified questions and suggested answers about Sabbath customs.

Nor the individual who has endeavored to create alarm about " The chartist desecration of the Sabbath " by telling a barefaced lie.

Above all may we have grace given us to reverence and keep holy the Sabbath day amid so much awful and general desecration.

I have seen no diminution in the quiet ' Sabbath rest ' that has always prevailed.

The former Black Sabbath frontman believes it likely that folks will be confused.

Even then they had the heaviness of fellow Brum band Black Sabbath.

What does it mean to keep the Sabbath holy?

She vowed she 'd gang tae kirk that Sabbath anaa.