Sentences with phrase «figure of a rabbi»

If the tradition in this respect is reliable, he showed especial affection for children, a trait which does not correspond to the typical figure of a rabbi.

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Lucivar: This figure Jesus that you speak of was supposedly a rabbi.

After a few months of repeated failures, the students are invited to bring along their priests, ministers, rabbis, imams, and other religious authority figures to lead their prayers.

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.

Ronit lives in the modern age, in the here and now of groovy tattooed seniors, art photography and liberated women, but «Disobedience» tracks her when she steps back in time after the death of her rabbi father (Anton Lesser), a revered religious figure in north London.

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.

Papety presents religious figures in a derogatory light; for Courbet, the rabbi and the priest in the Studio are personifications of self - satisfaction and hypocrisy.