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  • Born Matthew Paul Miller to a Reconstructionist Jewish family is West Chester, Penn., Matisyahu came into the music world following the band Phish before becoming ba'al teshuva in 2001 and becoming one of the most famous Orthodox Jews of our time to find traction in the secular world.

    Gabe Crane: Matisyahu's Spiritual Evolution And What It Means For Us Gabe Crane 2011

  • Born Matthew Paul Miller to a Reconstructionist Jewish family is West Chester, Penn., Matisyahu came into the music world following the band Phish before becoming ba'al teshuva in 2001 and becoming one of the most famous Orthodox Jews of our time to find traction in the secular world.

    Gabe Crane: Matisyahu's Spiritual Evolution And What It Means For Us Gabe Crane 2011

  • Another relevant Jewish value is ba'al taschit, the prohibition to waste or wantonly destroy.

    Ari Hart: Sustainable Food, Sustainable Faith 2010

  • Today's Jewish Food Movement applies the value of ba'al taschit when it questions the ethics of shipping vegetables around the world, or the average four pounds of grain it takes to raise a single pound of meat.

    Ari Hart: Sustainable Food, Sustainable Faith 2010

  • Another relevant Jewish value is ba'al taschit, the prohibition to waste or wantonly destroy.

    Ari Hart: Sustainable Food, Sustainable Faith 2010

  • Today's Jewish Food Movement applies the value of ba'al taschit when it questions the ethics of shipping vegetables around the world, or the average four pounds of grain it takes to raise a single pound of meat.

    Ari Hart: Sustainable Food, Sustainable Faith 2010

  • That's principally why I had joined this congregation that consisted largely of "ba'al teshuva" or "returned" Jews, people like me who were born Jewish, but had lost the tradition and in large, the religion.

    Rick Jacobs: Do Mormons Deserve Equal Protection Under the Law? 2008

  • Gersonides notes that humans can contravene these effects: God has provided humans with "the intellectual capacity (sekhel ba'al takhlit) that enables us both to act contrary to what has been ordered by the heavenly bodies and to correct, as far as possible, the [astrally ordained] misfortunes that befall us" (Wars, II. 2, p. 35).

    Gersonides Rudavsky, Tamar 2007

  • For these men were "bound by a covenant" to Abram, an expression for which the Hebrew uses the terms "masters of a covenant" -- ba'aley berith -- ba'al being used in that familiar, broad sense of merely expressing some type of relation, (K.S. 306 g).

    Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942

  • Ba'al, Wombo got 'im spear – ba'al got' im nulla-nulla.

    Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land 1915

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