Sentences with phrase «jewish rabbinical»

This last point reaches the heart of the matter, for the most characteristic feature of the gospel tradition, especially in contrast with Jewish rabbinical tradition, is the remarkable freedom which the transmitters of that tradition exercise in regard to it.

Nor, on the other hand, are we given a code of precise rules of observance, adapted, so far as possible, to cover all contingencies (which was the aim of Jewish Rabbinical teaching).

(R. M. Grant, Secret Sayings of Jesus, p. 188, calls attention to versions of this story in Aesop's Fables and in the Jewish rabbinical literature [Billerbeck, Kommentar I, 674]-RRB-.

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If you want a Christian resource on this, check out any book by Brad Young, a well known Christian authority on Hebrew, Jewish traditions, and Rabbinical teachings.

Shalom Carmy is chair of Bible and Jewish Philosophy at Yeshiva College and editor of Tradition, the theological journal of the Rabbinical Council of America.

It closely works with the Rabbinical Assembly, the international body of Conservative rabbis, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies.

When the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Rabbinical Assembly of the Conservative movement within Judaism issued guidelines for homosexual marriage by a vote of thirteen in favor, none opposed, and one abstention earlier this year, a Gentile friend of mine e-mailed me....

This omission in the usual rabbinical teaching was no innocent abbreviation... This was a flagrant perversion of the law which included all the members of the Jewish nation down to the lowest and extended even to the stranger.

I really wish they would have included the Rabbinical Jewish view on this, since I think it would have provided an interesting alternative view.

I see this as a common thread in a lot of Jewish background Rabbinical studies recently.

The White House also named Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, Executive Vice President of the Rabbinical Assembly and prominent Jewish organizational leader Susan Stern to the advisory council, which is officially called the President's Advisory Council on Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.

♦ Shalom Carmy reflects on our responses to immigrants in his editor's column for the spring number of Tradition, the Orthodox Jewish journal published by the Rabbinical Council of America.

The landmark vote by the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Conservative movement's Rabbinical Assembly follows a 2006 ruling by the committee «favor [ing] the establishment of committed and loving relationships for gay and lesbian Jews.»

Three years earlier, the Rabbinical Assembly had rejected a resolution that its Committee on Jewish Law and Standards should be instructed «to hold itself bound by the authority of Jewish law and within the frame of Jewish law.»

She teaches and lectures widely on Jewish feminism, rabbinical ethics, the relationship between religion and education, and social justice.

The elderly residents of the Jewish Center for the Aged in St. Louis baked 21 dozen kosher cookies, under strict rabbinical supervision.

The combination of the blood line related requirements to be considered Jewish by the Orthodox Rabbinical Court and the restriction of marriage requiring religious ceremonies shows an intent to maintain race purity.

As a matter of fact, if an Arab converted to Judaism, Rabbinical court would totally confirm their marriage to a Jew... whereas if a Jew from USSR who's not rabbinically Jewish (jewish father, russian mother) wanted to marry a Jew, that wouldn't be alJewish (jewish father, russian mother) wanted to marry a Jew, that wouldn't be aljewish father, russian mother) wanted to marry a Jew, that wouldn't be allowed.

Partnering with Sinai and Synapses, DoSER is working with three Jewish educational institutions that are exploring science and Judaism by developing elective courses for rabbinical students, a continuing education e-course, a webinar / workshop series for rabbis, and an event featuring premier scientists and Jewish leaders.

Though raised in the Jewish faith and receiving a rabbinical education, Spinoza was expelled from the synagogue at Amsterdam for defending heretical opinions in 1656.

Given that White Box is located at the epicenter of Jewish immigration, home to dozens of synagogues, I choose to focus on his Rabbinical series for the upcoming show, which includes 19 paintings and 47 drawings.