Many Jews consider a portion of the 49-day period of the counting of the omer between Passover and Shavuot to be a time of semi-mourning and instrumental music is not allowed during that time.

Many Conservative Jews reject the traditional Jewish idea that God literally dictated the words of the Torah to Moses at Mount Sinai in a verbal revelation, but they hold the traditional Jewish belief that God inspired the later prophets to write the rest of the Tanakh.

Many Conservative Jews believe that Moses was inspired by God in the same manner as the later prophets.

Many Catholic saints were noted specifically because of their missionary zeal in converting Jews, such as Vincent Ferrer.

Many Jews were forced to flee Germany.

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.

Many Jewish academics and intellectuals studied and taught at CUNY in the post-World War I era when Ivy League universities, such as Yale University, discriminated against Jews.

Many of the Bavarian Soviet Republic's leaders were Jewish, allowing anti-Jewish propagandists to connect Jews with Communism ( and thus treason ).

Many of its representatives such as Matthias Erzberger and Walther Rathenau were assassinated, and the leaders were branded as " criminals " and Jews by the right-wing press dominated by Alfred Hugenberg.

Many English people have heard almost nothing about the extermination of German and Polish Jews during the present war.

Many Jews converted to Christianity, however, prejudice against Jewish converts persisted and led many of these former Jews to move to the New World ( see History of the Jews in Latin America ).

Many medieval religious movements emphasized mysticism, such as the Cathars and related movements in the West, the Jews in Spain ( see Zohar ), the Bhakti movement in India and Sufism in Islam.

Many of these Jews would live in mountainous regions to get away from any non-Jewish influence.

Many non-religious Jews make a point of attending synagogue services and fasting on Yom Kippur.

Many Jews were forced to convert, and due to suspicion by the authorities of fake conversions, the new converts were also forced to wear identifying clothing.

Many Haredi or ultra-orthodox Jews are extremely scrupulous about the supervision of their matzah, as eating leavened products during Passover is liable to the extremely grave divine punishment of Kareth ( or a sin-offering if unintentional ); consequently many have the custom of baking their own matzo, or at least participating in some stage of the baking process.

Many Sephardi Jews have the custom of eating lamb or goat meat during the Seder in memory of the Korban Pesach.

Many households add their own commentary and interpretation and often the story of the Jews is related to the theme of liberation and its implications worldwide.

Many Orthodox Jews during Hol Hamoed go on trips such as baseball games and Six Flags Great Adventure.

Many branches of Reform Judaism hold that Jewish law should be interpreted as a set of general guidelines rather than as a list of restrictions whose literal observance is required of all Jews.

Many Jews were beaten to death, robbed, and burned alive.

Many Jewish homes were burned down, and several Jews were forcibly baptised.

Many anarchists view capitalism as an inherently authoritarian and hierarchical system and therefore reject anarcho-capitalism as a form of anarchism.

Many who side with this view disagree that Luke portrays Christianity or the Roman Empire as harmless and thus reject the apologetic view because “ Acts does not present Christians as politically harmless or law abiding for there are a large number of public controversies concerning Christianity, particularly featuring Paul .” For example, to support this view Cassidy references how Paul is accused of going against the Emperor because he is “ saying that there is another king named Jesus .” ( Acts 17: 7 ) Furthermore, there are multiple examples of Paul ’ s preaching causing uprisings in various cities ( Acts 14: 2 ; 14: 19 ; 16: 19-23 ; 17: 5 ; 17: 13-14 ; 19: 28-40 ; 21: 27 ).

Many, but not all, who consider themselves cognitive scientists have a functionalist view of the mind — the view that mental states are classified functionally, such that any system that performs the proper function for some mental state is considered to be in that mental state.

Many Enlightenment thinkers ( such as Adam Smith and the American Founding Fathers ) subscribed to this view to some extent, and it remains influential among so-called classical liberals and libertarians.

") Many of Poole's arguments were easily attended to, but both authors emphasize the importance of Cotton Mather's difficult and contradictory view on spectral evidence, as copied in the final pages of Increase Mather's " Cases of Conscience " called " The Return of Several Ministers.

Many Egyptians were tortured and martyred to accept the terms of Chalcedon, but Egyptians remained loyal to the faith of their fathers and to the Cyrillian view of Christology.

Many of those who apply the term " Catholic Church " to all Christians object to the use of the term to designate what they view as only one church within what they understand as the " whole " Catholic Church.

Many historical linguists view any speech form as a dialect of the older medium of communication from which it developed.

Many critics came to view the work as a tragedy in which Don Quixote's innate idealism and nobility are viewed by the world as insane, and are defeated and rendered useless by common reality.

Many Islamic scholars and modern Western academics do not view Uzair as " Ezra "; for example Professor Gordon Darnell Newby associates Uzair with Enoch and Metatron.

Many flags are dyed through and through to be inexpensive to manufacture, such that the reverse side is the mirror image of the obverse ( front ) side, generally the side displayed when the flag is flying from the observer's point of view from left, the side of the pole, to right.

Many religious mythologies had a view of Earth as being a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts ( e. g. some Native American religions and various forms of shamanism ).

Many scientists deny the possibility of this view ; however, such a view is considered within scientific possibility.

Many audio insiders like Sean Olive of Harman International share this view.

Many people consider George Orwell's use of Sugarcandy Mountain in his novel Animal Farm to be a literary expression of this view.

Many of these commands, such as Sabbath rest, circumcision, laws concerning food ( interdiction of blood and pork ), measures concerning menstruating and lying-in women and those suffering from gonorrhea, isolation of lepers, and hygiene of the camp, are, in view of the conditions of the climate, surprisingly rational.

Many breeders also show their hamsters, so breed towards producing a good, healthy, show hamster with a view to keeping one or two themselves, so quality and temperament are of vital importance when planning the breeding.

Many philosophers strongly oppose this view.

Many Christians interpret Boaz and Ruth as typical of Jesus and the Church.

Many of the population of the Western hemisphere could broadly be described as cultural Christians, due to the predominance of the Christian faith in Western culture, as well as widely celebrated religious holidays such as Easter and Christmas.

Many Christians have believed that Jesus ' doctrine of peace speaks only to personal ethics and is distinct from civil government's duty to punish crime.

Many, but not all, Christians believe:

Many Christians do not consider anti-Judaism to be antisemitism.

Many of the debates among Christians have roots in questions about the sources of authority different Christians believe represent God's purest or most definitive message.

Many Christians believe that marriage is defined by the union of a man and a woman, and that any sexual act outside of the marriage relationship is inherently sinful.

Many Protestant Christians claim that the Ten Commandments prohibit abortion under the heading of " Do not murder ".

Many Egyptian Christians went to the desert during the 3rd century, and remained there to pray and work and dedicate their lives to seclusion and worship of God.

Many of these churches reject the idea that anyone other than the authors of Scripture can directly lead other Christians by original divine authority ; after the New Testament, they assert, the doors of revelation were closed and councils can only give advice or guidance, but have no authority.

The author of the Easton's article concludes, " Many Christians today still find this letter to speak to modern-day problems within church communities.

Many Buryat Mongols also became Christians due to the Russian expansion.

Many Christians who believe in universalism hold panentheistic views of God in conjunction with their belief in apocatastasis, also called universal reconciliation.

Many Presbyterian denominations have found ways of working together with other Reformed denominations and Christians of other traditions, especially in the World Communion of Reformed Churches.

Many Christians call their prophet Jesus of Nazareth the " Prince of Peace ", and see him as a messiah ( savior or deliverer ), the " Christ ", who manifested as the Son of God on Earth to establish God's Kingdom of Peace, wherein persons, societies, and all of Creation are to be healed of evil.

Many of these prophets are also found in the texts of Judaism ( The Torah, the Prophets, and the Writings ; collectively known as the Old Testament to Christians ) and Christianity.

Many Christians with Pentecostal or charismatic beliefs believe in the continuation of the gift of prophecy and the continuation of the role of prophet as taught in Ephesians 4.

Many Christians regard Jesus as a divine incarnation.

" Many Christians have objected to my use of this word even when I define it specifically.

Many Christians regard the resurrection of Jesus as the central doctrine in Christianity.