Sentences with phrase «as the rabbis did»

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And considering 1.5 million Conservative Jews and their rabbis have concluded that as far as one knows or can tell Abraham and Moses did not exist gives added credence for leaving the no longer «holy» land.

Hey sheik, I don't know what your saying, but as far as I can tell, a rabbi named Jesus may have existed, but there is no proof of that.

I learned this not from a class in feminist studies, but from Jesus — who was brought into the world by a woman whose obedience changed everything; who revealed his identity to a scorned woman at a well; who defended Mary of Bethany as his true disciple, even though women were prohibited from studying under rabbis at the time; who obeyed his mother; who refused to condemn the woman caught in adultery to death; who looked to women for financial and moral support, even after the male disciples abandoned him; who said of the woman who anointed his feet with perfume that «wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her»; who bantered with a Syrophoenician woman, talked theology with a Samaritan woman, and healed a bleeding woman; who appeared first before women after his resurrection, despite the fact that their culture deemed them unreliable witnesses; who charged Mary Magdalene with the great responsibility of announcing the start of a new creation, of becoming the Apostle to the Apostles.

Well, I don't think the Apostles taught as roaming Rabbis because: a) they weren't rabbis (well, Paul was) b) I forget the otherRabbis because: a) they weren't rabbis (well, Paul was) b) I forget the otherrabbis (well, Paul was) b) I forget the other point

159:4.2 «Nathaniel, you have rightly judged; I do not regard the Scriptures as do the rabbis.

«At first I didn't know how rabbis would respond to something as irreverent as a mashup,» Gittel says, «but they almost uniformly embraced it.

He offered interpretations of the Law of Moses as other rabbis did, as well as some criticisms of it on which they would not have ventured.

The parable of the mustard seed in verses 30 - 32 has two points: (1) just as the tiny mustard seed can grow (in the Mediterranean area) into a fairly tall tree, so the humble start of the kingdom of God does not preclude a victorious ending; (2) the kingdom is now present, and all nations and peoples («birds of the air» was a phrase used by the rabbis to mean all people, including Gentiles) may now partake of it.

Protestant pastors, Muslim leaders, Jewish Rabbis do it as well.

Since The Romans had (as they always did, eventually) taken the ultimate legal Authority from the Jewish Rabbis in Israel (the Sceptre) and the Messiah had not come (as the Rabbi's still claim, then surely Abraham (the Father Of faith) is a false prophet?

The minister or rabbi actualizes his own unique destiny as a minister or rabbi when he does this.

The rabbis, especially the school of Hillel, recognized that changing circumstances required new ways of applying the law; but, so far as I am aware, they did not pronounce any law contrary to God's original purpose.

In a newsletter to them in May, he wrote: «From July I can officially use the title «Rev» (like a Rav [the Hebrew word for rabbi], but with different outfits...) and wear the clerical collar; I have no plans, however, to do either at JCoSS, and the day job will continue just as before.»

If, for example, Jesus had simply been a great moral teacher, a gentle rabbi who did nothing more than urge his devoted followers to love God... he would scarcely have been seen as a threat to the social order John the Baptist was imprisoned and executed because of his preaching... Jesus was to fare no better.

When you ask even today's rabbis why the Messiah didn't come 2000 years ago as He was supposed to... they will tell you, «We weren't worthy».

My neighbor the rabbi served a faith community that never had any illusions about its stance in the world: if its children were to grow up Jews, they would do so as strangers in a strange land.

The suit, filed by several Jewish groups and three rabbis on October 4, argues that «the government can not compel the transmission of messages that the speaker does not want to express - especially when the speaker is operating in an area of heightened First Amendment protection, such as a religious ritual.»

Soon, it was clear to Praeger and Somberg, as it already was to Ungar and his rabbi, that they were there to do more than just help out.

He grew up in Wilkes Barre, Pa., the son of an Orthodox rabbi, and as a teenager attended an Orthodox boarding school that didn't have a basketball team.

In the interview itself, Kaminski says that the chief rabbi «has nothing against me and does not regard me as an anti-Semite».

What they tend to forget is: his son - in - law is Jewish and was his right - hand - man during the campaign (and now in the administration), his daughter is Jewish and he never disowned her, he supports Israel (he didn't have to, as most leftist don't), and he had a rabbi speak at his inauguration.

The rabbi, according to the source, described Stern as a «macher» who raised a lot of money for Schneiderman and could, perhaps, do the same for Smith.

In 2010, you told one of the two chief rabbis of the Satmar Hasidic sect that you «did a lot of work» at Kiryas Joel as U.S. housing secretary under President Clinton because of the connection between the village and your father.

Lustig's wry double - takes when his dates complain to him about rabbis allowing women to drive or his colleagues fret about selling lettuce that has not been rabbinically approved would do Buster Keaton proud, and his scenes with Ruben Niborski as his son have an unforced naturalness many actors would kill for.

The rabbi did believe that marriage would be a «cure,» and if Esti is going to have sex with a man, he argued, that man might as well be a friend.

In that regard, too, screenwriters Alex Lipschultz, Musa Syeed, and Weinstein show us the details of living in such a community without passing judgment, despite the repeated hints that there are consequences for those who do not fit the mold — such as Menashe — or who are seen as less deserving of certain privileges — mainly women, who, according to one of the area's rabbis, aren't allowed to drive and can only attend college with a father's unlikely blessing.

The crux of the story is whether David, the son, will marry the rabbi's daughter as his mother wishes him to do, or will marry the daughter of his father's Chinese business partner.

Moving between their worlds, Christian and Jewish, African - American and white, impoverished and well - to - do, Albom observes how these very different men employ faith similarly in fighting for survival: the older, suburban rabbi embracing it as death approaches; the younger, inner - city pastor relying on it to keep himself and his church afloat.

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As the Electronic Frontier Foundation blog Deep Links reports, former rabbi Mordecai Tendler had filed suit in Santa Clara Superior Court against the «John Doe» bloggers after they wrote about allegations that he had sexually abused women he had counseled.

As I mentioned during the interview, we do not advocate divorce: anyone with marital troubles should consult with their priest, pastor, rabbi, marital therapist, or other clergy or professional and do all that they can to repair their relationship, especially if there are children involved.

Yet, recently my wife and I listened attentively as one of our Rabbis addressed the congregation on the topic of How Do You Measure Time?