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house of study

or House of Study
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Word History and Origins

Origin of house of study1

First recorded in 1925–30
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Example Sentences

At Gesher Jewish Day School in Fairfax County, middle school students gathered in the beit midrash, or house of study, to light a memorial candle Monday morning, said Head of School Dan Finkel.

For eight generations in the life of a city that changed constantly around them, the twin towers on Norfolk Street beckoned the faithful on Manhattan’s Lower East Side: first, Baptists, whose congregation was the forerunner of the Riverside Church; then Methodists; and then, for 122 years, Orthodox Jews from Eastern Europe, who called the synagogue Beth Hamedrash Hagodol — the Great House of Study.

He declared that no one should be admitted to the house of study whose inside is not like his outside.

From Time

Her husband was a pious man who spent most of his days and nights in the house of study.

As for me, my place was in the house of study, or so they said.

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