Observant Jews thus view the Torah as dynamic, because it contains within it a host of interpretations

Observant Jews spend the entire day in the synagogue, sometimes with a short break in the afternoon, reciting prayers from a special holiday prayerbook called a " Machzor ".

Observant Jews spend the weeks before Passover in a flurry of thorough housecleaning, to remove every morsel of chametz from every part of the home.

Most recently, Aviv Press has turned its attention to producing a new guide to Jewish law, The Observant Life: A Guide to Ritual and Ethics for Conservative Jews, edited by Martin Samuel Cohen and Michael Katz

Observant Jews typically treat Chol HaMoed as a vacation period, eating nicer than usual meals in their sukkah, entertaining guests, visiting other families in their sukkot, and taking family outings.

Observant Orthodox and Conservative Jews refrain from performing the prohibited activities.

Observant Jews consider the Shema to be the most important part of the prayer service in Judaism, and its twice-daily recitation as a mitzvah ( religious commandment ).

Observant Jews recite the Amidah at each of three prayer services in a typical weekday: morning, afternoon, and evening.

Observant Jews have the custom to take three steps back and then three steps forward both before and after reciting the Amidah.

Observant Jews will fast throughout Yom Kippur and many attend synagogue for most of the day.

Observant Jews will eat only meat or poultry that is certified kosher.

* Observant Jews recite Psalm 104 in its entirety every day during morning services, and on certain occasions, such as the New Moon ( Rosh Chodesh ), though customs vary.

Observant Jews therefore abstain from eating bear meat.

Observant Jews in current times also follow the laws of shatnez, and newly purchased garments are checked by experts to ensure that there are no forbidden admixtures.

She was named Mary and christened three days later with great ceremony at the Church of Observant Friars.

She was baptised into the Catholic faith at the Church of the Observant Friars in Greenwich three days after her birth.

Nevertheless, the religious houses of England and Wales – with the notable exceptions of those of the Carthusians, the Observant Franciscans, and the Bridgettine nuns and monks – had long ceased to play a leading role in the spiritual life of the country, and other than in these three orders, observance of strict monastic rules was partial at best.

The Order arose in 1520 when Matteo da Bascio, an Observant Franciscan friar native to the Italian region of the Marches, said he had been inspired by God with the idea that the manner of life led by the friars of his day was not the one which their founder, St. Francis of Assisi, had envisaged.

At this time, possibly in Wittenberg, he began translating the New Testament, completing it in 1525, with assistance from Observant friar William Roy.

The exceptional spiritual discipline of the Carthusian, Observant Franciscan and Bridgettine orders had, over the previous century, resulted in their being singled out for royal favour ; in particular with houses benefitting from endowments confiscated by the Crown from the suppressed alien priories ; otherwise in this latter period, donations and legacies had tended to go instead towards parish churches, university colleges, grammar schools and collegiate churches, which suggests greater public approbation of such purposes.

In 1403 he joined the Observant branch of the Order of Friars Minor, with a strict observance of Francis ' Rule.

The most important of these are: the Capuchins, founded in 1525 by Matteo Bassi and established in 1619 by Paul V as a separate order ; the Discalced Franciscans, founded as a specially strict Observantist congregation at Belalcázar in Spain by Juan de Puebla toward the end of the 15th century, compelled by Leo X to unite with the regular Observantists, but soon afterward reestablished as an independent branch by Juan de Guadelupe ( d. 1580 ), and subsequently obtaining some importance in Spain and Portugal ; the Alcantarines, a very strict congregation founded in 1540 by Peter of Alcántara, and distinguished by remarkable achievements in the mission field ; the Italian Riformati, founded about 1525 near Rieti by two Spanish Observantists, and becoming comparatively widespread from the beginning of the 17th century through the favour of Pope Clement VIII and Pope Urban VIII ; the French Recollects, originating in Cluys in 1570 and, more successfully at Rabastens in 1583, formed into a distinct congregation by Clement VIII in 1602, and important in later missionary history, especially in Canada ; the German-Belgian Recollects, formed in the 17th century, as the Observant provinces in Germany and Belgium accepted stricter statutes and took the name Recollects during and after the Thirty Years ' War.

The later group disappeared as a distinct group when their Observance among the friars was ended, with the friars being merged by the Holy See into the wider Observant branch of the First Order.

John, together with his teacher, Bernardine, his colleague, James of the Marche, and Albert Berdini of Sarteano, are considered the four great pillars of the Observant reform among the Friars Minor.

Observant married Jewish women, for example, are required to cover their hair, often employing scarves, known as tichels or snoods, in compliance with the code of modesty known as tzniut.

Observant critics had noted that On Our Big Fat Merry-Go-Rounds title reflected a track list that developed a cartoonish sense of threat ( with titles like " I Want to Kill Something ", " Watch Out You're Dead ", " Don't Ever Think You're Different ", " Stone the Crows ", and " Violent Love ").

All the houses of the Observant Friars were handed over to the mainstream Franciscan order ; the friars from the Greenwich house being imprisoned, where many died from ill-treatment.

A form of Fraticelli was also represented by Philip of Berbegni, a fanatical and eccentric Observant of Spain ( 1433 ), who attempted to establish a strict society de la Capuciola, but met vigorous opposition from John Capistran, who issued a dissertation against him.

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Opposition was concentrated in the houses of Carthusian monks, Observant Franciscan friars and Bridgettine monks and nuns ; which were, to the Government's embarrassment, exactly those orders where the monastic life was acknowledged as being fully observed.

Westminster Abbey, which had been retained as a cathedral, reverted to being a monastery ; while the communities of the Bridgettine nuns and of the Observant Franciscans, which had gone into exile in the reign of Henry VIII, were able to return to their former houses at Syon and Greenwich respectively.

Three styles of hair covering common among married Observant Jewish women.

*" The Observant Ethnographer " – Readers of ethnography are often led to assume the report of a scene is complete – that little of importance was missed.

Observant Jewish men are subject to restrictions on the shaving of their beards, as the book of Leviticus in the Bible appears to completely forbid the shaving of the corners of the head and prohibits the marring of the corners of the beard.

He resumed his missionary labours in 1436, but was forced to abandon them when he became vicar-general of the Observant branch of the Franciscans in Italy in 1438.

His cult also spread to England at an early period, and was particularly promulgated by the Observant Friars, who first established themselves in the country in Greenwich, in 1482, not forty years after his death, but who were later suppressed.

In addition to the monks, Netley was home to 29 servants and officials of the abbey, plus two Franciscan friars of the strict Observant part of that order who had been put into the abbot's custody by the king, presumably for opposing his religious policies.

Ashkenazi orthodox Jews still recite a prayer in memory of the death and destruction caused by the Crusades.

Traditionally, Jews recite prayers three times daily, Shacharit, Mincha, and Ma ' ariv with a fourth prayer, Mussaf added on Shabbat and holidays.

In addition to prayer services, observant traditional Jews recite prayers and benedictions throughout the day when performing various acts.

Ashkenazi Jews recite them from the last Sunday ( or Saturday night ) preceding Rosh Hashanah that allows at least four days of recitations.

During the holiday, some Jews recite the ushpizin prayer which symbolises the welcoming of seven " exalted guests " into the sukkah.

In keeping with the requirement to repent on Yom Kippur, Jews recite the full Vidui a total of 10 times: 2 times during Mincha on Yom Kippur eve, and on Yom Kippur itself during Ma ' ariv ( 2 times ), Shacharit ( 2 times ), Musaf ( 2 times ), and Mincha ( 2 times ); at Ne ’ eilah, only the short confessional is said.

" Jews in Israel, and especially those in Jerusalem, recite instead " L ' shanah haba ' ah b ' Yerushalayim hab ' nuyah!

Stephanie Persin writes, " Evangelists in the organization have been trained to recite phrases from the Old Testament and to use Yiddish words so as to convince potential converts that Jews for Jesus maintain Jewish traditions.

* To wear tefillin and recite the blessings in an undertone: This opinion, based on Maimonides, is the ruling of Moses Isserles who writes that this is the universally accepted practice among Ashkenazic Jews.

The people of the Scripture ( Jews ) used to recite the Torah in Hebrew and they used to explain it in Arabic to the Muslims.

However, it is an almost universal custom among observant Jews to recite it in Hebrew.

However, the practice among all Jews — women, men, and children — is to recite it.

Reform Jews also recite the whole of the first paragraph of the Shema aloud.

During the ceremony the national flag is lowered to half mast, the President and the Prime Minister both deliver speeches, Holocaust survivors light six torches symbolizing the approximately six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust and the Chief Rabbis recite prayers.

Some Hassidic Jews, particularly ( though not exclusively ) women, recite the Yiddish prayer God of Abraham before Havdalah.

Nevertheless, some Jews recite kiddush only when about to partake of a full meal.

Benjamin II ( Mas ' e Yisra ' el, p. 15 ) states that the Jews of Aleppo sing on Sabbath eve many beautiful hymns and recite many prayers, most of which are by Najara.

Later, when at Madinah storms of opposition were raised by the hypocrites, Jews and polytheists, the Holy Prophet was instructed to recite these very Surahs, as has been mentioned in the above cited tradition from Hadrat Uqbah bin Amir.

* Jonathan Rosenblum of Jewish Media Resources, wrote in the Jerusalem Post: "... Last Sunday, 10, 000 Jews gathered in the Catskills to recite Tehillim on behalf of the Jews of Israel.

While Ashkenazi Jews recite a blessing at the beginning and end of Partial Hallel, some Sephardi Jews do not, particularly if the blessing they recite at the beginning of Full Hallel is ligmor et hahallel ( to complete the Hallel ) instead of likro et hahallel ( to read the Hallel ) as recited by Ashkenazi Jews.