* Joshua and the Israelites were able to defeat the people at Ai because Joshua followed the divine instruction to extend his sword ( Josh 8: 18 ), just as the people were able to defeat the Amalekites as long as Moses extended his hand that held " the staff of God " ( Ex.

Whereas the written Torah has a fixed form, the Oral Torah is a living tradition that includes not only specific supplements to the written Torah ( for instance, what is the proper manner of shechita and what is meant by " Frontlets " in the Shema ), but also procedures for understanding and talking about the written Torah ( thus, the Oral Torah revealed at Sinai includes debates among rabbis who lived long after Moses ).

Many Jews view Jesus as one in a long list of failed Jewish claimants to be the Messiah, none of whom fulfilled the tests of a prophet specified in the Law of Moses.

Moses then led his people eastward, beginning the long journey to Canaan.

He describes Moses as 80 years old, " tall and ruddy, with long white hair, and dignified.

In the late 1980s, Jewish feminists introduced the idea of placing a Cup of Miriam filled with water ( to represent the well that existed as long as Miriam, Moses ' sister, was alive in the desert ) beside the Cup of Elijah.

" If Moses, Cyrus, Theseus, and Romulus had been unarmed they could not have enforced their constitutions for long — as happened in our time to Fra Girolamo Savonarola, who was ruined with his new order of things immediately the multitude believed in him no longer, and he had no means of keeping steadfast those who believed or of making the unbelievers to believe.

The tide-related sea level variations result in a local phenomenon ( a " Moses Miracle ") when a land pass 2. 9 km long and 10 – 40 meters wide opens for an hour between the Jindo and Modo islands.

For Reform Jews, the prophecy of Moses was not the highest degree of prophecy ; rather it was the first in a long chain of progressive revelations in which mankind gradually began to understand the will of God better and better.

" The date of his sojourn in Egypt in his last incarnation is not now known, but it has been fixed at the early days of the oldest dynasties of Egypt, long before the days of Moses.

In the north are a number of long, deep ravines, and Mount Nebo, famous as the scene of the death of Moses.

The significance of Fischer's discovery, as the Australian historian John Moses has noted, is that the goal of winning Lebensraum was already in German thinking long before 1933 and thus cannot be seen, as some German historians have argued, as solely Adolf Hitler's personal brain-child.

Moses Lake, on which the city lies, is made up of three main arms over 18 miles ( 29 km ) long and up to one mile ( 1½ km ) wide.

Moses Lake has a long history with its sister city ; Yonezawa, Japan.

The Sanhedrin is traditionally viewed as the last institution that commanded universal Jewish authority among the Jewish people in the long chain of tradition from Moses until the present day.

Toney was an integral part of the 1982 – 83 76ers ' " Fo ' fi ' fo '" championship team, considered by many to be one of the greatest teams ever, and will long be remembered as a fan favorite along with such players as Julius Erving, Moses Malone, Bobby Jones and Maurice Cheeks.

It was designed by John Moses Browning, who had a long and profitable relationship with Winchester from the 1880s to the early 1900s.

Previously the stronghold of Moses Mabhida, this area has long been the site of heated clashes between the parties.

According to tradition, the Tannaim were the last generation in a long sequence of oral teachers that began with Moses.

Among them were Moses Malone, acquired during their second season, who went on to a long and successful career in the NBA, culminating in enshrinement in the Basketball Hall of Fame.

In the previous century scholars such as Thomas Hobbes and Baruch Spinoza had drawn up long lists inconsistencies and contradictions and anachronisms in the Torah, and used these to argue that Moses could not have been the author of the entire five books.

They have extremely long life spans ; Erek King, the first Chee the Animorphs met in The Android, was over 50 millennia old, remarking that he has been alive since Moses wandered the Egyptian desert.

* Orchard Beach: a, long beach, man-made under Robert Moses ' supervision in the 1930s and the only public beach in the Bronx.

This time he delayed so long that some of the engages shouted frantically, but they held their fire.

Others, badly wounded, gripped hands in manes, knees in bellies, held on as long as possible and then, weak from ghastly wounds, slipped sideways, slowly, almost thoughtfully, to be broken under the slashing hoofs.

It was partially cemented by ages and pressure, yet it crumpled before the onslaught of the powerful streams, the force of a thousand fire hoses, and with the gold it held washed down through the long sluices.

Fuzzy caterpillars, snails with their sensitive horns, struggling grasshoppers held by their long hind legs and commanded to `` spit tobacco, spit ''.

Radio broadcasts, however -- now that even plain people could afford `` loud speakers '' on their sets -- held old fans to the major-league races and attracted new ones, chiefly women, who through what the philosopher called the ineluctable modality of audition, became first inured, then attracted, then addicted to the long afternoon recitals of the doings in some distant baseball park.

He held his long clenched foot in both hands, and this and his contorted face -- he was trying heroically not to cry out -- made him look like a large skinny old monkey.

His demands were certainly grand: the concession of a block of territory 200 miles long by 150 wide between the Danube and the Gulf of Venice ( to be held probably on some terms of nominal dependence on the Empire ) and the title of commander-in-chief of the imperial army.

York and Worcester had long had close ties, and the two sees had often been held in plurality, or at the same time.

Some contact adhesives require as long as 24 hours to dry before the surfaces are to be held together.

A long held hypothesis suggests the possibility that alien big cats at large in the United Kingdom could have been imported as part of private collections or zoos, later escaped or set free.

Basel has long held an important place as a rail hub.

After a long delay, elections were finally held in 2010.

The comics have long held a distorted mirror to contemporary society, and almost from the beginning have been used for political or social commentary.

A meeting chaired by Charles A. Phillips was held at the Pentagon on May 28 and 29 of 1959 ( exactly one year after the Zürich ALGOL 58 meeting ); there it was decided to set up three committees: short, intermediate and long range ( the last one was never actually formed ).

Further east, the military history of China, specifically northern China, held a long tradition of intense military exchange between Han Chinese infantry forces of the settled dynastic empires and the mounted nomads or " barbarians " of the north.

Massed English longbowmen triumphed over French cavalry at Crécy, Poitiers and Agincourt, while at Gisors ( 1188 ), Bannockburn ( 1314 ), and Laupen ( 1339 ), foot-soldiers proved their invulnerability to cavalry charges as long as they held their formation.

The governing body of the CPSU was the Party Congress which was held once in 1 – 5 years, depending on the historical period, with an exception of a long break from 1939 to 1952.

Unlike in a piano action, the tangent does not rebound from the string ; rather, it stays in contact with the string as long as the key is held, acting as both the nut and as the initiator of sound.

The Christadelphian distinction between representation and substitution has been noted in the relevant scholarly literature, and representative participation ( an interpretation long held by Christadelphians ) is widely considered the original Biblical teaching on the atonement.

In Japan, there appears to have been what probably constituted a long held ' official ' company bias against use of the name " Datsun ".

Other common signifying footwear of the dominatrix are thigh-high boots, in leather or shiny PVC, which have long held a fetishistic status, along with the very high stiletto heel.

An upright bassist auditioning for a blues band might be asked to play in a Swing-style walking bassline, a rockabilly-style " slapping " bassline ( in which the strings are percussively struck against the fingerboard ) and a 1950s ballad with long held notes.

For instance, Freeze Arrows ( introduced in DDRMAX ) which is a long green arrow that must be held down until the tail of it reaches the Step Zone, that is given an " O. K .!

Those with visible health problems or diseases were sent home or held in the island's hospital facilities for long periods of time.