You shall hang the curtain under the clasps, and bring the ark of the covenant in there, within the curtain; and the curtain shall... separate for you the holy place from the most holy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shal...l he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from t...he goats, and he will put the sheep at his right hand and the goats at the left.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But from the beginning of creation, 'God made them male and female.' 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and ...be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.' So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherei...n these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot be, at least than either of them separate, so that being thrown into the balance it may prevent either scale from preponderating.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And we can get back to that raw state Of feeling, so long deemed... Inconsequential and therefore appropriate to our later musings About religion, about migrations. What is restored Becomes stronger than the loss as it is remembered; Is a new, separate life of its own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When we sent our first child off to school I experienced a jarring moment, an epiphany. I had been teaching young children for man...y years, advising parents on a wide range of issues, including the best and most painless ways to separate from their youngsters at school. When my own time came, I found that all my good advice to others was impossible to follow myself.... I felt like a midwife friend of mine who had assisted in the births of hundreds of babies before her own first child was born. In the middle of labor she cried out, "I've told hundreds of women, 'you can do it,' and it can't be done."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Orthodox Judaism is a thicket of detailed injunctions, Biblical commandments elaborated during centuries of prohibited proselytizi...ng, functioning to limit interaction with outsiders. At the opposite extreme, Islam, still the most rapidly expanding of faiths, demands little immediate knowledge from those who would convert. The convert is permitted to enter and then to learn by participation, although there are plenty of detailed regulations and abstruse theological ideas to be pursued later, and the regulations do effectively separate believers from nonbelievers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »