Background: The Jewish religious canon, as an example, stresses the importance of maintaining health of body and soul. Mainstream Jewish perception towards potential conflicts in health care delivery is emphasized and stipulated by the doctrine of "the care for life supersedes keeping the Sabbath", i.e. life preservation supersedes all else. Nevertheless, this principle, among certain Jewish religious communities, has occasionally been controversial, specifically concerning oral health care. Objectives: The aim was to examine the views of spiritual and religious leaders towards general and oral health issues in order to elucidate health behaviour practices among religious and orthodox populations. Methods: A total of 11 religious community leaders were interviewed using a semi-structured questionnaire. The verbatim transcriptions of the interviews were analysed in the spirit of grounded theory using qualitative data analysis software. Open, axial and thematic coding served to build categories and themes. Results: Analysis of participants' perspectives reflected that they attributed high importance to primary prevention at both personal and community levels. Religious and orthodox people were depicted as being motivated towards maintaining oral health behaviours due to a sense of obligation to follow religious edicts, strong social support and elevated perceived spiritual levels. We offer a theoretical model that can explain the potential high motivation among these communities towards implementing positive general and oral health behaviours. Conclusions: This research found that the tendency to implement good oral health behaviour is relatively high and due to a variety of factors. The association between religiosity, spirituality and oral health behaviour, has not previously been explored in the literature. Religiosity may be regarded as an example of a psycho-social health determinant, encompassing spiritual belief ("psycho") and social support ("social") components. A comprehensive understanding of the psycho-social “web of causation” may improve present and future oral public health promotion programs.