Sentences with phrase «of rabbinical»

However, a discussion with the head of a rabbinical school convinced him that was not his next path in life.

At Cannes, FILM COMMENT spoke with Shlomi Elkabetz about planning out the rigorous camerawork, the secrecy of the rabbinical court, and why he considers Gett to be their most American film.

Glitz, glamour and a surprise outbreak of rabbinical beard art from the 55th BFI London film festival's annual awards ceremony

Schorsch had voiced similar sentiments to his fellow Conservative rabbis two months before at the annual convention of the Rabbinical Assembly.

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.

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.

The White House also named Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, Executive Vice President of the Rabbinical Assembly and prominent Jewish organizational leader Susan Stern to the advisory council, which is officially called the President's Advisory Council on Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.

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 ethics.

Finally, he has added a version of the rabbinical parable of the unprepared guests, referred to above, to make the whole an allegory of the mixed state of the Church and the sorting - out process of the future judgement of God, a theme characteristic of his gospel (allegories of weeds of the field, 13.24 - 30, 36 - 43, dragnet, 13.47 - 50, sheep and goats, 25.31 - 33).

My essay affirms a very orthodox view of Rabbinical Judaism, as our Chukat Olam (eternal law).

At the core of my essay was the proposition that Jesus» teaching about the law was ambiguous, and that he could most reasonably be understood as affirming the law, and that the changes he wrought as the normal stuff of rabbinical exegesis.

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.

The evidence of the Rabbinical literature, which is mostly of late date and uniformly hostile to Christianity, adds little of historical worth, but confirms that Jews who became Christians formed a community to some extent separate from other Jews, and by the end of the first century at least were regarded as heretics.

We get not so much the public account of a very private man as an account of how that man was perceived by the rank «and «file membership of the Rabbinical Council of America, to which Rabbi Soloveitchik devoted so much of his time and energy.

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....

Shalom Carmy is editor of Tradition, the theological journal of the Rabbinical?

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 was 2006, and I attended a fellowship of rabbinical students across denominations that met every week over dinner.

Shalom Carmy is chair of Bible and Jewish Philosophy at Yeshiva College and editor of Tradition, the theological journal of the Rabbinical Council of America.

Not exact matches

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).

But, after the destruction of the Temple there were TWO major new Judaisms of which rabbinical Judaism (what we think of as Judaism these days) was just ONE.

The Haggadah contains numerous rabbinical liturgical inventions coupled with literary (midrashic) renderings of biblical verses, all focused on the story of the Israelite exodus from Egypt.

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.

15.18 which has «God... his kingdom (malkutheh) endures for ever for the «God will reign for ever and ever» of the MT. (Taken from G. Dalman, The Words of Jesus [hereinafter Words][ET by D. M. Kay of Die Worte Jesu; Edinburgh: T. & T. Clarke, 1902], p. 96, where further rabbinical references are given.)

It closely works with the Rabbinical Assembly, the international body of Conservative rabbis, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies.

(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-.

I have never heard of him actually attending a rabbinical school per se, however, very little is known of him prior to age 13, when he was instructing the priests at the temple.

Totally agree with Chuck here, Jesus is using a typical Rabbinical motif by only quoting the first part of a scripture, consider he probably wants to quote it to the end but physically it is almost impossible due to what is happening to his lungs and rib - cage during the Crucifixion.

Though their course of study is longer and their debt load higher, rabbinical students, as a group, have most of the characteristics of «quality» that other groups say they want.

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.

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.

Nor, on the other hand, are we given a code of precise rules of observance, adapted, so far as possible, to cover all contingencies (which was the aim of Jewish Rabbinical teaching).

The Reform movement now sends all of its first - year rabbinical students to Jerusalem — a move that will certainly have a profound effect upon its laity.

Rather than consider that Paul's writings on women might have been culturally (mis) interpreted for centuries, Mollenkott instead concludes that some of Paul's arguments reflect his «rabbinical training and human limitations.

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

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.

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.

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.

Some idea of the vividness of Jesus» teaching can be seen by comparing this saying with a rabbinical one of similar import: «If a man was walking by the way and studying and he ceased his study and said, «How fine is this tree!»

Interesting as background to the parable is a rabbinical simile about the giving of the Torah to Israel:

As background to this parable, the rabbinical story of the tax collector and the pious student is to be noted, j. Sanh.

The rabbinical version is interesting as illustrating the doctrine of exact retribution: the one evil deed and the one good deed are cancelled out by the funerals, and then the two inherit their respective rewards.

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.

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.

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

They're guided by senior rabbinical scholars, but the scholars themselves become, as they walk around the study hall, part of the learning dialogue and expand their own understanding of the sacred text.