Sentences with phrase «great rabbi»

«From my cultural background, there is no one as venerated as a great rabbi, who is a student and teacher by definition.»

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

I don't understand the hatred between some blacks and the Jewish community because I remember the Levys and I remember the great rabbi who stood with D. A. Holmes in Kansas City way before Martin Luther King, Jr., brought that kind of ecumenicity.

On learning of his quest, the villagers of Ladi all asked with pride if he wanted first to hear their great rabbi read Talmud or to hear him pray.

The Talmud relates that the great rabbi Hillel (who was still living during Jesus» boyhood) was once challenged by a pagan to teach him the whole law while he stood on one foot.

Jesus» original disciples likely never thought of him as anything more than a great rabbi, and some might have thought him a good rallying point for a revolt, they could have even whispered that he was anointed by God, but the idea of his being divine only seems to enter into the gospels around the time many Greek educated folks had converted, bringing their own views of what a «son of God» means into the faith.

Though he wasn't Jewish, Motherwell had studied with one of the great rabbis of art history, the Columbia professor Meyer Schapiro.

Not exact matches

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.

I spoke to a rabbi about Isreal once, he called it the greatest threat Judaism has ever faced.

I recall a great Reform rabbi once thundering a sermon in defense of Jewish theism to his congregation at its centennial.

Thus, when militant rabbis called upon soldiers to disobey orders to withdraw from Gaza, he reminded the public that undermining legitimate authority caused greater harm than the worst possible consequences of evacuation.

We can say such things, for example, as that he was born in Palestine during the reign of Herod the Great; that he was brought up in Nazareth; that he lived the normal life of a Jew of his period and locale; that he was baptized by John, a proclaimer of the early coming of God's judgment; that he spent a year or more in teaching, somewhat in the manner of contemporary rabbis, groups of his fellow countrymen in various parts of Palestine, mostly in Galilee, and in more intimate association with some chosen friends and disciples; that he incurred the hostility of some of his compatriots and the suspicion of the Roman authorities; that he was put to death in Jerusalem by these same authorities during the procuratorship of Pilate.

Menachem Schneerson, the famous Lubavitcher rabbi from Brooklyn, used to stand every week for hours as thousands of people filed by to receive his blessing or his advice about matters great and small.

This was the recognised posture and place for the great teachers among the Rabbis.

He was the best, the absolute best, and that's what makes this tragedy that much greater,» his rabbi told New York Daily News.

Others see him as a great teacher, a healer or rabbi of extraordinary power, a holy man or prophet who proposed a new covenant between heaven and earth.

In challenging that misconstruction of Jewish history and theology, along with several other deeply problematic aspects of Dabru Emet, Prof. Levenson did a great service to furthering open discussion on a topic that is far from resolved in the minds of most rabbis and Jewish thinkers, Prof. Novak's «normative text for Jews» notwithstanding.

I realise that many rabbis, Jews as well as the Israeli politicians will castigate me for trying to start a religious war for being so verbal, since our greatest adversary (those who wants to destroy us by converting us rather than killing us) are also our most fervent supporters.

This story tells us that there was an old rabbi of great wisdom whose fame had spread far beyond his own congregation to the villages and rabbis on the other side of the mountain.

Simeon J. Maslin is president of the Beard of Rabbis of Greater Philadelphia and senior rabbi of Congregational Keneseth Israel.

There was a Talmudic - era rabbi by the name of Akiva ben Joseph (who argued plenty with another rabbi, Simeon ben Azzai) who argued that the greatest commandment in all of the Torah was to love your neighbor as yourself (to which ben Azzai objected primarily due to neighbor not being clear enough and then said that the greatest commandment was within Genesis 5:1 — that man was created in G - d's image and thus if you hate any person, you are hating G - d).

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.

Within this continuing community were particular individuals who served as exemplars in subsequent recollection: Abraham, Moses, David, the great prophets, priests and rabbis.

His parents and his beloved first wife Bella were from Hasidic families, and he refers lovingly to the Hasidic rabbi from Mohileff as having «the greatest influence» on him.

But Gamaliel, one of the greatest Hebrew rabbis and a member of the Pharisean party, cautioned them against precipitous action.

At least one Shin Bet boss believes the rabbis to be a greater threat than the Palestinians.

After solving a mystery involving a priest, a rabbi, and an imam, the great Belgian sleuth — a representative of one Europe's most notorious colonialist powers — declares his findings to a wonderstruck crowd of diverse Eastern extras gathered at the foot of the Wailing Wall.