Sentences with phrase «itinerant rabbi»

A wily lawyer eager to debunk the itinerant rabbi asks him what one must do to inherit eternity.
Jesus tries to ignore her; his disciples urge him to send her away; and when the itinerant rabbi finally speaks his mind — in response to them more than to her — it is with a bit of received wisdom that no one would hold against him: «I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.»
These came to supersede the simple homiletics of the obscure itinerant rabbi, and transformed what was a Jewish reform sect into a new, and increasingly Gentile, religion.

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The daughter of a failed itinerant Orthodox rabbi, she was born Rachel Shilsky (actually Ruchel Dwara Zylska) in Poland on April 1, 1921.
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