Another common criticism is that enduring the financial privations of a seminary education is somehow a spiritual obligation.

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Although valuable and quite extensive contributions to pupils' understanding of spiritual values are made in religious education, Welsh, English, history and art, the provision for collective worship does not provide a context in which pupils' own spiritual awareness can be consistently nurtured.

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Today, the system is used in therapy and education, and can have a strong spiritual dimension -- but one of the first and major fields of use is business, where it has been adapted as a way of bringing insight into oneself and others.

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In a more immediate, though more oblique, threat to Mr Barak's political well-being, the attorney-general recently ordered the police to investigate Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, spiritual leader of the traditionalist Shas party, for publicly cursing Yossi Sarid, the education minister and leader of the secularist Meretz party.

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