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The Talmud, with its rabbinic legal codes and commentaries, its reams of debates and interpretive disagreements, provided a heady way into learning a new religion.—
Jeannie Suk Gersen,
The New Yorker,
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But the particular rule regarding kohanim and converts is rabbinic, not Biblical, which—arguably—allows a degree of discretion.—
Jeannie Suk Gersen,
The New Yorker,
2 Dec. 2024
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In the early 1500s, an unknown wealthy patron is said to have commissioned Leonardo da Vinci to produce the Salvator Mundi, a striking ecclesiastical masterpiece in which Jesus is shown blessing humanity with his right hand while holding an orb representing the Earth in his left.—
Brian Klaas,
The Atlantic,
7 Feb. 2025
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She has been recognized multiple times for her age, including: Jan. 2, 2022 – Oldest Brazilian ecclesiastical person ever.—
Saleen Martin,
USA TODAY,
7 Jan. 2025
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Paro Taktsang, Bhutan The Buddhist monastic tradition has two sides, says Matthew King, a scholar of Buddhist studies and director of Asian studies at the University of California, Riverside.—
Shoshi Parks,
Smithsonian Magazine,
31 Jan. 2025
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It was performed both preventatively and, in the case of some medieval religious communities, periodically as part of monastic bodily regulation and discipline.—
Megan Cassidy-Welch,
CNN,
24 Jan. 2025
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Forget Fleabag, Conclave, Nobody Wants This, or Ramy, there’s a new ecclesiastic bombshell on the block.—
Riann Phillip,
Vogue,
31 Jan. 2025
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But Thondup is also sharply critical of the Tibetan political and ecclesiastic elite for their gross mismanagement of their relations with China.—
Anne F. Thurston,
Foreign Affairs,
23 Feb. 2016
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“Caliphal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caliphal. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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