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t. e. According to Rabbinic Judaism, the Oral Torah or Oral Law ( Hebrew: תּוֹרָה שֶׁבְּעַל־פֶּה, romanized : Tōrā šebbəʿal-pe) are statutes and legal interpretations that were not recorded in the Five Books of Moses, the Written Torah ( תּוֹרָה שֶׁבִּכְתָב, Tōrā šebbīḵṯāv, '"Written ...
Psalm 119 is the 119th psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in the English of the King James Version: "Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord". The Book of Psalms is in the third section of the Hebrew Bible, the Khetuvim, and a book of the Christian Old Testament. The psalm, which is anonymous, is referred to in ...
of or pertaining to the mouth Latin ōs, ōris, mouth oral-or: one who, agent noun–forming suffix generally appended where Latin would do it—to the root of a Latin-type perfect passive participle. Cf. -er: doctor orchi(o)-, orchid(o)-, orch(o)-testis: Greek ὄρχις (órkhis), testicle, ovary orchiectomy, orchidectomy: orth(o)-
And so it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles; but what comes from it, that is disobedience and resistance to the law of God. (see Mark 7:20) Commentary from the Church Fathers. Jerome: "The word here ‘makes a man common’ is peculiar to Scripture, and is not hackneyed in common parlance. The Jewish nation, boasting themselves to be ...
Delphic maxims. The Delphic maxims are a set of moral precepts that were inscribed on the Temple of Apollo in the ancient Greek precinct of Delphi. The three best known maxims – "Know thyself", "Nothing in excess", and "Give a pledge and trouble is at hand" – were prominently located at the entrance to the temple, and were traditionally ...
Buddhism and sexuality. In the Buddha's first discourse, he identifies craving ( tanha) as the cause of suffering ( dukkha ). He then identifies three objects of craving: the craving for existence; the craving for non-existence and the craving for sense pleasures ( kama ). Kama is identified as one of five hindrances to the attainment of jhana ...
Oral gospel traditions is the hypothetical first stage in the formation of the written gospels as information was passed by word of mouth. These oral traditions included different types of stories about Jesus. For example, people told anecdotes about Jesus healing the sick and debating with his opponents. The traditions also included sayings ...
Word of mouth. Word of mouth is the passing of information from person to person using oral communication, which could be as simple as telling someone the time of day. [1] Storytelling is a common form of word-of-mouth communication where one person tells others a story about a real event or something made up.