Word Finder - rabbi

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A Jewish scholar or teacher of halacha (Jewish law), capable of making halachic decisions.

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A Jew who is or is qualified to be the leader of a Jewish congregation.

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(police) A senior officer who acts as a mentor.

The father of the controversy may be said to be the Jewish rabbi, Aben Ezra, who died A.D.

In 1854 he was appointed rabbi at Cincinnati.

Each synagogue is served by a rabbi assisted by an officiating minister, and in each consistory is a grand rabbi.

The place is usually the synagogue house, or that of the Rabbi, sometimes that of the widow.

In later days the same function was performed by the Purim Rabbi, who often indulged in parodies of the ritual.

The Talmud owes much to this rabbi.

At most services, it is delivered by the rabbi.

Later on, Jacob 3 I Hebrew vi, from the initial letters of Rabbi Shelomoh Yizbagi, a convenient method used by Jewish writers in referring to well-known authors.

Rashi acted as rabbi and judge, but received no salary.

The elders called the rabbi to dicuss what to do.

The provincial Jewries, however, participate in the election of the chief rabbi.

The schochat or butcher must be a devout Jew and of high moral character, and be duly licensed by the chief rabbi.

Such violations of holy things as making mock of the Scriptures, or even reciting them as one would ordinary literature, was sacrilege in the eyes of the rabbi.

Two and a half miles to the east is Chufut-Kaleh (or Jews' city), formerly the chief seat of the Karaite Jews of the Crimea, situated on lofty and almost inaccessible cliffs; it is now deserted except by the rabbi.

In 1846 he was chosen Rabbi of the new Berlin congregation and there exercised considerable influence on the course of Jewish reform.

There are remains of a Crusaders' church, and the tomb of the celebrated Maimonides is shown in the town, while Rabbi Agiba and Rabbi Meir lie buried outside.

At one time he was secretary to the Chief Rabbi; in 1853 he became tutor in the Rothschild family and enjoyed leisure to produce his commentaries and other works.

Superficially the language of apocalypses differs from that of rabbinic decisions, and where the seer takes a comprehensive view of the ages the rabbi legislates for particular cases.

The master was addressed by his pupils with the word rabbi (" my teacher"), or rabbenu (" our teacher").

As an honorary title of the scribes, with whose name it was constantly linked, "Rabbi" only came into use during the last decades of the second Temple.

This title, a higher distinction than that of rabbi, is in tradition borne only by the descendants of Gamaliel I., the last being Gamaliel III., the son of Jehuda I.

Not a rough prophet in the desert like John, not a leader striking for political freedom, not a pretender aiming at the petty throne of the Herods, not even a great rabbi, building on the patriotic foundation of the Pharisees who had secured the national life by a new devotion to the ancient law.

Each tana - or rabbi of the earlier period - had a spokesman, who repeated to large audiences the discourses of the tana.

This Rabbi bore a large part in the fixation of law, and his decisions are frequently quoted.

Bar Nor is it certain whether he himself at first made a personal claim to be the promised Messiah; but it was his recognition as such by the distinguished Rabbi Akiba, then the most influential Jew alive, which placed him in the command of the insurrection, with 200,000 men at his command.

The Rabbi IJayim Benveniste and other men of repute and learning shared the general delusion.

There is no a priori reason why other legal enactments should not have been current when the compilation was first made; the Pentateuchal legislation is incomplete, and covers only a small part of the affairs of life in which legal decisions 1 For the sake of convenience Ben (" son ") and Rabbi are, as usual, abbreviated to b.

Judah, grandson of Gamaliel II., known as the Prince or Patriarch (nasi), as Rabbenu (" our teacher "), or simply as " Rabbi " par excellence, was the editor.

Spinoza received his first training under the senior rabbi, Saul Levi Morteira, and Manasseh ben Israel, a theological writer of some eminence whose works show considerable knowledge of philosophical authors.

Before 1223 their courts had received autonomy in civil and criminal jurisdiction; their chief rabbi was appointed by the king and entitled to use the royal arms on his seal.

Here lived Rabbi Judah ha k-I adosh, editor of the Mishnah; here was edited the Jerusalem Talmud, and here are the tombs of Rabbi Aqiba and Maimonides.

According to Rabbi Johanan it derived its name from the allusion in v.

The Rabbi HILLEL, who in the 4th century made the remarkable declaration that Israel need not expect a Messiah, because the promise of a Messiah had already been fulfilled in the days of King Hezekiah (Babli, Sanhedrin, 99a), is probably Hillel, the son of Samuel ben Nahman, a well-known expounder of the scriptures.

In religious and ritual matters it is under the jurisdiction of the chief rabbi, who is, to a certain extent, recognized throughout the empire.

The title "chief rabbi" is not found in the pre-expulsion records, though, before the Jews were banished in 1290, there was an official named "presbyter omnium Judaeorum Angliae."

The title "chief rabbi" has become well known through the eminence of recent occupants of the position such as Solomon Hirsch ell (1762-1842).

Dr Adler was elected chief rabbi in 1891.

He occupies an important position in the history of the acceptance by medieval Jews of the Kabbala (q.v.); for, though he made no fresh contributions to the philosophy of mysticism, the fact that this famous rabbi was himself a mystic induced a favourable attitude in many who would other- 'wise have rejected mysticism as Maimonides did.

He was junior colleague of Dr John Duncan (Rabbi Duncan) till 1870, and then for thirty years sole professor.

But it is recorded that the Rabbi 'Agiba, who recognized him as Messiah, applied Num.

He was appointed Rabbi in Prague in 1836, and in Berlin in 1844.

Rabbi Solomon IzxAQ1 (son of Isaac), usually cited as Rashi from the initials of those words, was born at Troyes in 1040 and died in the same town in 1105.

In 1890 the Rabbinical Diploma was conferred on him by Lector Weiss of Vienna, but again he evidenced his self-denial by declining to stand for the post of associate Chief Rabbi in the same year.

Here Menasseh rose to eminence not only as a rabbi and an author, but also as a printer.

Dr. Jonathan Sacks is Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew congregations of the Commonwealth.

The old rabbi was asked why God didn't just destroy all idols instead of merely telling people not to worship them.

The synagogue later apologized to Rabbi Carr for " unwarranted intrusion into aspects of her private life.

The rabbi had the same mannerisms and physical appearance as the priest from Deadwood.

I might, instead, have become a really great rabbi!

It is named after a former rabbi who became the first Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem, Michael Solomon Alexander.