Sentences with phrase «in rabbinical»

Jews must be married in Rabbinical court, Muslims by their religious authorities.

He would live in Israel and study in rabbinical schools.

was a question warmly discussed in the Rabbinical schools, and it was answered, as time went on, in an ever narrower way.

The love of God, though it appears not infrequently in the Old Testament and in the rabbinical writings, there carries with it a connotation of God's love for the people Israel which was too small for Jesus.

But in the rabbinical teaching, to become unquestioningly obedient to the Law means here and now «to take upon oneself the Kingdom of heaven.»

In rabbinical Judaism after the beginning of the Christian era the hope retreats more and more into the background, not indeed as a fundamental conception but as a practical attitude.

First of all let us turn our inquiries to the faith of Judaism itself Although in the lifetime of Jesus the resurrection hope had not yet become universal in Judaism, it soon established itself as a fundamental doctrine in the rabbinical Judaism which survived the rise of Christianity.

On another note, you may find really insightful interpretation of Genesis in rabbinical sources.

This «how much more» argument is a recognized form of reasoning in the rabbinical literature, where it is known as «light and heavy, i.e., arguing from the less to the more important.

In the rabbinical version the finder builds a palace and purchases many slaves.

Not exact matches

There were many different sects with widely differing views — the Saduccees (those who believed literally in the Written Law in the Torah and not the Oral Law, Pharisees (who believed in both the Written and the Oral law, the rabbinical way which is the only sect that survived and continues to this day), Essenes, Zealots, etc..

Some rabbinical scholars even discussed beastiality (if the creation of another person was for the sake of sexual companionship) in this context (funny I must admit).

Christians and Jews were peoples of the book whom Muslims would tolerate» indeed Jews, who were a majority of the city's population, thrived in Ottoman Salonica and made it a center of rabbinical learning» but only if they paid a high tax and accepted second - class status.

It has been forty years since my revered teacher Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik, popularly known as «the Rav» by his followers in the modern wing of American Orthodoxy, presented his paper «Confrontation» to the Rabbinical Council of America.

Turning to me, she asked for a rabbinical exposition on the notion of covenant, leaving me feeling as if my role that day was that of theologian - in - chief; ironic, of course, in a Jesuit institution.

(R. M. Grant, Secret Sayings of Jesus, p. 188, calls attention to versions of this story in Aesop's Fables and in the Jewish rabbinical literature [Billerbeck, Kommentar I, 674]-RRB-.

When the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Rabbinical Assembly of the Conservative movement within Judaism issued guidelines for homosexual marriage by a vote of thirteen in favor, none opposed, and one abstention earlier this year, a Gentile friend of mine e-mailed me....

This omission in the usual rabbinical teaching was no innocent abbreviation... This was a flagrant perversion of the law which included all the members of the Jewish nation down to the lowest and extended even to the stranger.

I found myself playing a small part in Omega's pageant last Easter season as I stood in a dressing room of my college's Newman Center, tossed aside my Baylor (Baptist) sweat shirt, and was fitted with rabbinical robes so that I could act as «father» for a Passover Seder meal.

My father, son of a Polish rabbi, while completing his own rabbinical studies in Switzerland was introduced to the New Testament, not by an eager gentile missionary but by his overhearing (quite by accident) a discussion about Jesus in some university hall.

When officers of the Rabbinical Council ofAmerica balked at participating in a Catholic - sponsored conference on «Man as the Image of God,» on the grounds that this was «theology,» the Rav wryly remarked that a conference on «Man as a Purely Naturalistic Being» would not have set off the same alarms.

We find ourselves quite unconvinced by much of the ancient rabbinical reasoning, a little of which is reflected in the letters of Paul.7 Nevertheless the Jews spent much time trying to learn how the Scriptures they had inherited from a former period were to be seen as relevant to their own day.

There were many Rabbinical Traditions that were added to these, and were not based in Love, when Messiah came 2000 years ago, and He challenged the Pharisees on these.

They should have made the sign in Yiddish or Rabbinical Hebrew if they hadn't wanted to get their message across.

This last point reaches the heart of the matter, for the most characteristic feature of the gospel tradition, especially in contrast with Jewish rabbinical tradition, is the remarkable freedom which the transmitters of that tradition exercise in regard to it.

Far more than simply a historical issue, the unique events leading to the Flood are a prerequisite to understanding the prophetic implications of our Lord's predictions regarding His Second Coming.1 (italics are mine) The strange events recorded in Genesis 6 were understood by the ancient rabbinical sources, as well as the Septuagint translators, as referring to fallen angels procreating weird hybrid offspring with human women - known as the «Nephilim.»

I see this as a common thread in a lot of Jewish background Rabbinical studies recently.

This abrogated numerous Rabbinical warnings about foreign or Samaritan women, as well as the familiar prohibitions against talking with women, especially sinful women, in public, and opened the door for a more normal and natural basis for relationship.59

in 90 AD, rabbinical scholars gathered for the Council of Jamnia — a meeting in which they agreed upon which books they believed to be most authoritative.

In this capacity, she spearheaded numerous landmark initiatives on behalf of the Rabbinical Assembly in areas such as career mentoring, mediation, dispute resolution, women's advancement, professional boundaries and ethicIn this capacity, she spearheaded numerous landmark initiatives on behalf of the Rabbinical Assembly in areas such as career mentoring, mediation, dispute resolution, women's advancement, professional boundaries and ethicin areas such as career mentoring, mediation, dispute resolution, women's advancement, professional boundaries and ethics.

As Ben Witherington says, «It is significant that Jesus was willing to perform extraordinary miracles (raising the dead), and to violate the Rabbinical Sabbath regulations even in the presence of Rabbis and in the Synagogues in order to help women.

like rabbinical Judaism, Anabaptist Christianity, Quakerism, and the original Christianity of Jesus's followers until Constantine militarized, imperialized and Romanized it in the early 300's?

Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, Appointee for Member, President's Advisory Council on Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Rabbi Julie Schonfeld is the Executive Vice President of the Rabbinical Assembly, the international association of Conservative and Masorti Rabbis, founded in 1901.

William Rainey Harper, who founded the university in 1892, had counted among his close friends Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch, the first professor of rabbinical literature and philosophy; John Henry Barrows, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church and permanent chairman of the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions; and Mrs. Caroline E. Haskell, who donated to the university the Haskell Lectureship on Comparative Religion and the Haskell Oriental Museum.

This may have something to do with the rabbinical notion that the Torah (Bible) is absolutely NOT literal, but is rather composed specifically to be read in a multifaceted way; it may have had something to do with Judaism as, above, a practical religion; it may have been because, as scientists, my parents are able to think critically about what they were taught in the arenas of both faith and science.

♦ Shalom Carmy reflects on our responses to immigrants in his editor's column for the spring number of Tradition, the Orthodox Jewish journal published by the Rabbinical Council of America.

Back in grad school I read somewhere that there was a rabbinical tradition that it was a dog that God gave Cain to protect him in Gen 4... hence the beginning of man's best friend (as well as the inspiration of the Cain / dog relationship in the Kung Fu series).

The Pharisees, practicing a puritan and separatist form of spirituality, accepted the belief in a general resurrection (the more conservative Sadducees rejected it) and they left a huge deposit in subsequent rabbinical Judaism.

Some scholars would defend the substantial authenticity of many continuous sections of the discourse, e.g. in the «rabbinical» arguments 7:15 - 24, 8:16 - 19, 10:24 - 38, but for the most part the discourses must be considered as artificially built up around genuine words of Jesus, in an attempt to give what the evangelist considered a right interpretation of some aspect of his teaching as a whole.

There is a rabbinical tradition that the Ten Commandments were issued by God in the several languages of the seventy nations of antiquity.

Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai went to the Emperor Titus and asked him for the right to open a rabbinical academy in the city of Yavneh in return for which he would not urge or foment revolt against Rome.

Produced in the company's dedicated facility, which is free of dairy, eggs, peanuts, and tree - nuts, these vegan marshmallows are also free of wheat, gluten and corn, and certified kosher by the Chicago Rabbinical Council.

The elderly residents of the Jewish Center for the Aged in St. Louis baked 21 dozen kosher cookies, under strict rabbinical supervision.

Judge Edwin Berman appointed Don Massaro, executive director of the Catholic Cemeteries, to make sure the bodies were buried in compliance with a court order that Berman issued Wednesday in a case brought by the Chicago Rabbinical Council.

And Robert Rothschild, secretary - treasuer for the Cemeteries Association of Greater Chicago said in a Monday interview that action by the Rabbinical Council could make the situation worse.

Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel, Agudath Israel's executive vice president, congratulated the Governor and the legislature for «their recognition, even in these challenging times, that including rabbinical colleges in the state TAP program — just as they are included in the federal Pell program — is a matter of simple equity.»

What must be recognized in this conversation is that while society's commitment to the pursuit of higher education has always been a funding priority, our Rabbinical colleges were not given equal recognition when it came to scholarship opportunities like TAP.

Until now, needy rabbinical college students in undergraduate institutions were eligible for federal «Pell grants» to help defer the costs of tuition, but not for New York State tuition assistance grants.

ALBANY — As a result of several years of efforts by Agudath Israel of America and the unwavering support of New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind, it appears that rabbinical college students in New York State will, for the first time ever, be eligible to receive Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) grants.

Additional impacts include the cancellation of $ 12.8 million in Tuition Assistance Program funds that would have gone to rabbinical schools.