All 13 Uses
orthodox
in
The Chosen, by Chaim Potok
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- Most of the stores were run by gentiles, but some were owned by Orthodox Jews, members of the Hasidic sects in the area.†
Chpt 1.1 *orthodox = normal (describing thinking or behavior as commonly or traditionally accepted)
- Every Orthodox Jew sent his male children to a yeshiva, a Jewish parochial school, where they studied from eight or nine in the morning to four or five in the evening.†
Chpt 1.1
- Jewish education was compulsory for the Orthodox, and because this was America and not Europe, English education was compulsory as well—so each student carried a double burden: Hebrew studies in the mornings and English studies in the afternoons.†
Chpt 1.1
- In the fashion of the very Orthodox, their hair was closely cropped, except for the area near their ears from which mushroomed the untouched hair that tumbled down into the long side curls.†
Chpt 1.1
- These were the very Orthodox, and they obeyed literally the Biblical commandment And ye shall look upon it, which pertains to the fringes.†
Chpt 1.1
- In the borderland east of Ukrainia in Russia, there was a community of Cossacks who were; members of the Greek Orthodox Church.†
Chpt 2.6
- My father had told me once that it had been built in the early twenties by a group of Orthodox Jews who wanted their sons to have both a Jewish and a secular education.†
Chpt 2.7
- A rabbinic ordination from its Talmud faculty was looked upon as the highest of Orthodox Jewish honors.†
Chpt 2.7
- It also contained a large reading room, with long tables, chairs, a superb collection of reference books, and an oil painting of Samson Raphael Hirsch which was prominently displayed on a white wall—Hirsch had been a well-known Orthodox rabbi in Germany during the last century and had fought intelligently through his writings and preachings against the Jewish Reform movement of his day.†
Chpt 3.13
- It was a rigidly Orthodox school, with services three times a day and with European-trained rabbis, many of them in long, dark coats, all of them bearded.†
Chpt 3.13
- This latter group was composed of severely Orthodox Jews, who, like Reb Saunders, despised all efforts aimed at the establishment of a Jewish state prior to the advent of the Messiah.†
Chpt 3.13
- Are you going to remain an Orthodox Jew?†
Chpt 3.17
- Whatever gave you the notion that I had any intention of not remaining an Orthodox Jew?†
Chpt 3.17
Definitions:
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(orthodox) normal (describing thinking or behavior as commonly or traditionally accepted)
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) "Orthodox" (especially when capitalized) can also reference churches or religious orders that are more conservative than those that are non-orthodox.