Sentences with phrase «figure as the rabbi»

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For stories to be told of him as a rabbi, the picture of his actual work as a teacher of the Law must have been distinctly impressed on their memory; later it was gradually thrust into the background by the figure of the Messiah.

Here we have beekeepers and lion tamers and ghost rabbis marking an exploration of how we can arrive at compassion after suffering, and these figures overcome you in such a way that it feels as if they alone can bend you towards epiphany.