Thus, Conservative Judaism rejects patrilineal descent and would hold that a child of a non-Jewish mother who was raised as a Reform or Reconstructionist Jew is not legally Jewish and would have to undergo conversion to become a Jew.

Thus, Judaism has also been characterized as a culture or as a civilization.

Thus, as an ethnic religion, Judaism holds that others may have their own, different, paths to God ( or holiness, or " salvation "), as long as they are consistent with the Seven Laws of Noah.

Thus fundamentally in Judaism, one is enjoined to bring holiness into life ( with the guidance of God's laws ), rather than removing oneself from life to be holy.

Thus, Judaism rejects the notion that anyone can or should die for anyone else's sin.

Thus, Christianity acquired an identity distinct from Rabbinic Judaism, but this distinction was not recognised all at once by the Roman Empire, see Split of early Christianity and Judaism for details.

Thus, although there is an esoteric tradition in Judaism ( Kabbalah ), Rabbinic scholar Max Kadushin has characterized normative Judaism as " normal mysticism ", because it involves everyday personal experiences of God through ways or modes that are common to all Jews.

Thus a Jew who claims to be an atheist or converts to another religion is still considered by traditional Judaism to be Jewish.

Thus, Judaism views Muslims as righteous people of God.

Thus, although Modern Orthodox Jews find all non-Orthodox forms of Judaism to be wrong, the non-Orthodox movements are not considered to be inherent antagonists ; rather they are perceived to be competitors offering a faulty product, so to speak.

Thus Orthodoxy should work together on some issues with non-Orthodox Judaism, and it is far better for Jews to be members of non-Orthodox Judaism than to assimilate and not be religious Jews at all.

Thus, for example, the Conservative movement typically does not accept Reform converts to Judaism whose conversions did not meet the requirements of Jewish law as being Jews.

Thus in all forms of Judaism following the Oral Law, women are allowed to marry whom they wish, including exogamously, whether they have gained an inheritance or not.

" Thus, in debating and disagreeing over the meaning of the Torah or how best to put it into practice, no rabbi felt that he ( or his opponent ) were in some way rejecting God or threatening Judaism ; on the contrary, it was precisely through such arguments that the rabbis imitated and honored God.

Thus, while early Jewish literature has few historical works, many notes on the history of Judaism have been introduced into the responsa.

Thus, in Europe of the early 19th century, all of Judaism that differed from the strictest forms present at the time was called " Reform ".

Thus, the martyrdom may have occurred in the aftermath of Septimus Severus ’ s decrees of 202 that forbade conversion to Judaism and Christianity .< ref > Brent Shaw, “ The Passion of Perpetua ,” Past and Present 139, ( May 1993 ), JSTOR 30 < http :// www. jstor. org / stable / 651089 >, 10-11.

Thus, he combined central figures in the founding of Judaism and Christianity.

Thus, any divergence from the tenets of Biblical Judaism espoused by Jesus would disqualify him from being considered a prophet in Judaism.

Thus Jews who had converted to Christianity could be regarded as especially deceitful and subversive, while Gentiles who had converted to Judaism were perceived as traitors to the " Aryan race " and were among the first to be persecuted and killed.

Thus the 1969 Instruction states that, for cardinals and bishops, " the elbow-length cape, trimmed in the same manner as this cassock, may be worn over it ".

Thus, just as Passover is described in the Torah as a seven-day holiday but is observed for eight outside of Israel, so Sukkot is described in the Torah as a seven-day holiday but is observed for eight outside of Israel.

Thus, Emet Ve-Emunah affirms belief in God and in God's revelation of Torah to the Jews ; however it also affirms the legitimacy of multiple interpretations of these issues.

Thus, one may conceive of the " Oral Torah " not as a fixed text but as an ongoing process of analysis and argument in which God is actively involved ; it was this ongoing process that was revealed at Sinai, and by participating in this ongoing process rabbis and their students are actively participating in God's ongoing act of revelation.

Thus, as the Pharisees argued that all Israel should act as priests, the Rabbis argued that all Israel should act as rabbis: " The rabbis furthermore want to transform the entire Jewish community into an academy where the whole Torah is studied and kept .... redemption depends on the " rabbinization " of all Israel, that is, upon the attainment of all Jewry of a full and complete embodiment of revelation or Torah, thus achieving a perfect replica of heaven.

" Thus, Tannaim are " Mishnah teachers "), the sages who repeated and thus passed down the Oral Torah.

Thus the Jewish hope, and the Torah, and the commandments have become familiar topics of conversation among those even on far isles, and among many people, uncircumcised of flesh and heart.

Thus, as ibn Daud remarks, perhaps with a reference to the miracles attributed to Jesus, the authenticity of the Torah would be in a sorry plight if, instead of being based on miracles of real historic certainty, such as those of Moses, it were supported merely by miracles of such private character as the resurrections effected by Elijah and Elisha ( ib.

Thus, if data chosen for ELS experiments are intentionally or unintentionally " cooked " before the experiment is defined, similar patterns can be found in texts other than the Torah.

Thus the Torah describes her eyes as " soft " from weeping.

However, he commented: " Only lately some well-to-do men came forward and purchased three copies of my code Mishneh Torah which they distributed through messengers ... Thus the horizon of these Jews was widened and the religious life in all communities as far as India revived.

Thus as regards involvement in the secular world, the " narrow interpretation " essentially restricts Derech Eretz to a gainful occupation ; permissible knowledge would be limited to functional and occupation related knowledge, and ( possibly ) secular knowledge that enables one to better interpret and understand the Torah.

Thus on a regular basis, he quotes secular scientists in his Torah commentary.

Thus, the optimum course to be adopted in all cases is to devote oneself to full-time Torah learning for as long as possible ; " to go out into the world is a course to be adopted only when there is no other alternative ".

Thus the Counting of the Omer demonstrates how much a Jew desires to accept the Torah in his own life.

Thus, for example, he has ruled that those who desecrate the Sabbath are not considered as having abandoned the Torah, and thus if they have touched wine it remains Kosher.

Thus, beginning with the Torah portion Vayishlach, extensive passages are found that bear the marks of the later haggadah, and have points of connection with the Tanhuma homilies.

Thus, when the Talmud states that " a person should complete his portions of scripture along with the community, reading the scripture twice and the targum once " ( Berakhot 8a-b ), the passage may be taken to refer to Targum Jonathan ( as well as to Targum Onkelos on the Torah ).

Thus, in spite of Paul's agreement at the Council of Jerusalem, Gentile Christianity came to understand that any Torah Laws ( with the exception of the Ten Commandments and Natural Law ) were anathema, not only to Gentile Christians but even to Christians of Jewish extraction.

Thus, approaching them with a mind that is not yet learned in Torah and other Jewish texts can lead to heresy and the transgressions considered the most serious by Maimonides.

Thus, the word " haibun ", though counted as two syllables in English, is counted as four on in Japanese ( ha-i-bu-n ); and the word " on " itself, which English-speakers would view as a single syllable, comprises two on: the short vowel o and the moraic nasal

Thus the identifier " Model T " identifies the class ( model ) of automobiles that Ford's Model T comprises ; whereas the unique identifier " Model T Serial Number 159, 862 " identifies one specific member of that class — that is, one particular Model T car, owned by one specific person.

Thus, the essential description of a component actually comprises only in-and output that are described fully in terms of data types and their meaning ( semantics ).

Thus, although the Fynbos comprises only 6 % of the area of southern Africa, it has half the species on the subcontinent – and in fact has almost 1 in 5 of all plant species in Africa.

Thus the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London describes its collection as follows: " The National Maritime Museum's collection of objet d ’ art comprises over 800 objects.

Thus soil organic matter comprises all of the organic matter in the soil exclusive of the material that has not decayed.