Sentences with phrase «century rabbis»

We will be discussing the Apostle Paul's words about women later in the series, but it's worth noting here that when first - century rabbis like Jesus and Paul allude to the stories of the Torah, including the creation accounts, they are not participating in «straight exegesis» as we would understand it today.

It was common enough for first - century rabbis to teach their followers to pray.

So he did what any 21st century rabbi would do and took his plea to the Internet, saying he was looking for a good younger woman with better copayment figures.

The second - century rabbi Akiba pointed to Leviticus 19:18, Jesus» second commandment, as the sum and substance of the law.

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It is a place (around the first century, a rabbi postulated that the maximum time spent there would be a year)... in which a person is can essentially be purged of their unrighteous DEEDS, and come close to G - d.

The 20th century Jewish rabbi Abraham Heschel wrote concerning the Sabbath: «When the Romans met the Jews and noticed their strict adherence to the law of abstaining from labor on the Sabbath, their only reaction was contempt.

Many centuries before Hegel, the rabbis of the Talmud mastered the «determinate negation,» the rejection of an idea that reveals an insight about both that idea and its relatives.

In Jewish tradition, we frequently speak in terms of «Written Torah» (the text of the Hebrew Scriptures as they have come down to us) and «Oral Torah» (the ensuing centuries of conversations and interpretations of our sages and rabbis, which are also considered to be holy.)

We don't see from religious secular history, Rabbis getting paid till centuries later which also holds true for Christian pastors.

Studying the images of Jesus cherished by successive ages — from rabbi in the first century to universal man in the Renaissance to liberator in the 19th and 20th centuries — Pelikan suggests that the way a particular age depicted Jesus is an essential key to understanding that age.

As Phelps» daughter reminded me, there is a venerable American history of religious protests against the coercive power of the federal government, running from the anti-slavery and female suffrage advocacy of nineteenth - century evangelicals to the civil rights agitation of rabbis and members of the black church.

In his book Man as Male and Female (Eerdmans, 1975), Jewett argues for an egalitarian male / female relationship by calling for distinctions (within the New Testament materials themselves) between Paul the former rabbi and Paul the apostle, or between Paul's perception of the truth and his implementation of it in the first century.

Nisibis which was situated west of Tigris was the seat of a Jewish Academy of learning whose fame was acknowledged in the first century even by the Rabbis in Palestine.

Two rabbis in particular provided special guidance for me: Nachmanides (Rabbi Moshe ben Nachman), a thirteenth - century Spanish scholar, philosopher, physician, and poet, a renaissance man who brought a kabbalistic or mystical orientation to the text, and Samson Raphael Hirsch, a nineteenth - century German Orthodox rabbi who expressed an uncanny ecological perspective.

It is no accident that the rabbis who canonized Psalms in the first century put delight in the law first.

This saying from a first century collection of Syrian Rabbis echoes the exact word used in the prologue of St. John «The Word was made flesh and tabernacled (literally: «pitched his tent») among us» (John 1:14).

«But when the rabbis down the centuries look at the scriptures and interpret them in the light of their own time, and when we do that in the light of our modern morality — why bother with the scriptures at all?»

(Anyone who thinks that Orthodox Judaism is a fossil faith, taken seriously only by a few grey - bearded rabbis, should read Herman Wouk's book This Is My God, a moving testimonial of what it means to be an Orthodox Jew in twentieth - century America.)

The role of Moses in first century eschatology was not so well developed though some rabbis taught that he, too, went directly into heaven.

They fall under the spell of one or another charismatic rabbi (or «Rebbe»), a phenomenon for which a precedent already existed in the century - old Hasidic communities of Lubavitch, Satmar, Belz and other less well known East - European centers.

Jewish rabbis did not receive compensation for their religious services in the first century; they worked at secular employment in addition to performing their sacred duties.

In this century, a redemptive vision of fraternal peace, transcending theological divisions, was delineated by Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak Kook (1865 - 1935), the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi in Palestine under the British Mandate.

So why were no comments made about Jesus, a first - century Jewish rabbi, being unmarried?

The rector, seated like a rabbi in a first - century synagogue, preaches on the texts.

A great rabbi, Rabbi Hillel (first century C.E.) said it --

They'll debate the answer as if they're second - century Talmudic rabbis, concluding that you may or may not deserve tenure, but it's getting close to lunchtime, so they'll have to finish this later.

A USA Today Bestseller Winner of a National Jewish Book Award Winner of the Association of Jewish Libraries Jewish Fiction Award An Amazon Best Book of the Year One of Ms. Magazine's «Bookmark» Titles One of The Jewish Exponent's «2017's Top Reads» Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty - first century, The Weight of Ink is the interwoven tale of two women of remarkable intellect: Ester Velasquez, an emigrant from Amsterdam who is permitted to scribe for a blind rabbi, just before the plague hits the city; and Helen Watt, an ailing historian with a love of Jewish history.

I have completed a literary, historical novel, The Tremble of Love, inspired by the life of an eighteenth century mystic, rabbi and healer known as the Baal Shem Tov.

Symbols adorn the graves, such as the lion etched on the tomb of Judah Loew Ben Bezalel, the chief rabbi of Prague in the 16th century.

Each is based on a map created by a 19th - century European rabbi — more of a geometrically abstracted diagram, actually — of Israel.