Sentences with phrase «as rabbinical»

To acknowledge that historically Christianity is a form of first - century Judaism as valid and authentic as rabbinical Judaism?

Not exact matches

But, after the destruction of the Temple there were TWO major new Judaisms of which rabbinical Judaism (what we think of as Judaism these days) was just ONE.

Being Orthodox, they use rabbinical laws as justification for committing more crimes.

It has been forty years since my revered teacher Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik, popularly known as «the Rav» by his followers in the modern wing of American Orthodoxy, presented his paper «Confrontation» to the Rabbinical Council of America.

Turning to me, she asked for a rabbinical exposition on the notion of covenant, leaving me feeling as if my role that day was that of theologian - in - chief; ironic, of course, in a Jesuit institution.

I love the realization that Jesus treated the Samaritan Woman, married 5 times and currently cohabitating, as an normal rabbinical student / disciple.

Though their course of study is longer and their debt load higher, rabbinical students, as a group, have most of the characteristics of «quality» that other groups say they want.

We get not so much the public account of a very private man as an account of how that man was perceived by the rank «and «file membership of the Rabbinical Council of America, to which Rabbi Soloveitchik devoted so much of his time and energy.

I found myself playing a small part in Omega's pageant last Easter season as I stood in a dressing room of my college's Newman Center, tossed aside my Baylor (Baptist) sweat shirt, and was fitted with rabbinical robes so that I could act as «father» for a Passover Seder meal.

As the Septuagint does not deviate here from the Hebrew, the Apostle must have followed some Rabbinical tradition.

This «how much more» argument is a recognized form of reasoning in the rabbinical literature, where it is known as «light and heavy, i.e., arguing from the less to the more important.

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).

The evidence of the Rabbinical literature, which is mostly of late date and uniformly hostile to Christianity, adds little of historical worth, but confirms that Jews who became Christians formed a community to some extent separate from other Jews, and by the end of the first century at least were regarded as heretics.

When officers of the Rabbinical Council ofAmerica balked at participating in a Catholic - sponsored conference on «Man as the Image of God,» on the grounds that this was «theology,» the Rav wryly remarked that a conference on «Man as a Purely Naturalistic Being» would not have set off the same alarms.

Jeremy Myers Yeshua's Rabbinical style is as 2nd Temple period similar as can be.

At the core of my essay was the proposition that Jesus» teaching about the law was ambiguous, and that he could most reasonably be understood as affirming the law, and that the changes he wrought as the normal stuff of rabbinical exegesis.

My essay affirms a very orthodox view of Rabbinical Judaism, as our Chukat Olam (eternal law).

First of all let us turn our inquiries to the faith of Judaism itself Although in the lifetime of Jesus the resurrection hope had not yet become universal in Judaism, it soon established itself as a fundamental doctrine in the rabbinical Judaism which survived the rise of Christianity.

We find ourselves quite unconvinced by much of the ancient rabbinical reasoning, a little of which is reflected in the letters of Paul.7 Nevertheless the Jews spent much time trying to learn how the Scriptures they had inherited from a former period were to be seen as relevant to their own day.

Interesting as background to the parable is a rabbinical simile about the giving of the Torah to Israel:

As background to this parable, the rabbinical story of the tax collector and the pious student is to be noted, j. Sanh.

The rabbinical version is interesting as illustrating the doctrine of exact retribution: the one evil deed and the one good deed are cancelled out by the funerals, and then the two inherit their respective rewards.

Far more than simply a historical issue, the unique events leading to the Flood are a prerequisite to understanding the prophetic implications of our Lord's predictions regarding His Second Coming.1 (italics are mine) The strange events recorded in Genesis 6 were understood by the ancient rabbinical sources, as well as the Septuagint translators, as referring to fallen angels procreating weird hybrid offspring with human women - known as the «Nephilim.»

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

In rabbinical Judaism after the beginning of the Christian era the hope retreats more and more into the background, not indeed as a fundamental conception but as a practical attitude.

They're guided by senior rabbinical scholars, but the scholars themselves become, as they walk around the study hall, part of the learning dialogue and expand their own understanding of the sacred text.

This abrogated numerous Rabbinical warnings about foreign or Samaritan women, as well as the familiar prohibitions against talking with women, especially sinful women, in public, and opened the door for a more normal and natural basis for relationship.59

In this capacity, she spearheaded numerous landmark initiatives on behalf of the Rabbinical Assembly in areas such as career mentoring, mediation, dispute resolution, women's advancement, professional boundaries and ethics.

As Ben Witherington says, «It is significant that Jesus was willing to perform extraordinary miracles (raising the dead), and to violate the Rabbinical Sabbath regulations even in the presence of Rabbis and in the Synagogues in order to help women.

From 2001 - 2009, Rabbi Schonfeld served as Director of Rabbinic Development for the Rabbinical Assembly.

This may have something to do with the rabbinical notion that the Torah (Bible) is absolutely NOT literal, but is rather composed specifically to be read in a multifaceted way; it may have had something to do with Judaism as, above, a practical religion; it may have been because, as scientists, my parents are able to think critically about what they were taught in the arenas of both faith and science.

was a question warmly discussed in the Rabbinical schools, and it was answered, as time went on, in an ever narrower way.

Back in grad school I read somewhere that there was a rabbinical tradition that it was a dog that God gave Cain to protect him in Gen 4... hence the beginning of man's best friend (as well as the inspiration of the Cain / dog relationship in the Kung Fu series).

Some scholars would defend the substantial authenticity of many continuous sections of the discourse, e.g. in the «rabbinical» arguments 7:15 - 24, 8:16 - 19, 10:24 - 38, but for the most part the discourses must be considered as artificially built up around genuine words of Jesus, in an attempt to give what the evangelist considered a right interpretation of some aspect of his teaching as a whole.

Through rabbinical supervision, products can be certified to both the strictest kosher certification requirements and to organic standards such as USDA, Canadian Organic Regime, Quebec Organic Reference Standards, EU organic standards and the Japan Agricultural Standard (JAS).

Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel, Agudath Israel's executive vice president, congratulated the Governor and the legislature for «their recognition, even in these challenging times, that including rabbinical colleges in the state TAP program — just as they are included in the federal Pell program — is a matter of simple equity.»

ALBANY — As a result of several years of efforts by Agudath Israel of America and the unwavering support of New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind, it appears that rabbinical college students in New York State will, for the first time ever, be eligible to receive Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) grants.

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 allowed.

Dovid analyzing what he sees as the «higher» qualities of the sensuous Song of Songs, emphasizing, «my love is fair,» — with a table of equally enthusiastic rabbinical students.

Eisenberg is good as Sam Gold, who works in his father's fabric shop while pursuing rabbinical studies.

Some Rabbinical authorities hold that you must keep 2 days of Shabbos in Hawaii as the exact location of the halachic international dateline is a matter of debate.