Sentences with phrase «of a rabbi»

«Like the generations of rabbis who came after him,» Cox writes, «he did not offer answers that would apply to everyone and for all time.»

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.

As the film opens, New York photographer Ronit (Rachel Weisz) returns to the Orthodox Jewish community where she grew up to mourn the death of her rabbi father (Anton Lesser).

Suppose a group of rabbis from Israel were to make a highly publicized visit to Rome for the purpose of furthering peace, harmony, and fraternal dialogue.

At 5:15 p.m., Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer co-hosts a Hanukkah candlelighting ceremony with New York Board of Rabbis, Bowling Green, Broadway and Morris Street, Manhattan.

Everything seemed in place to take Genius to the next level and transform it from a niche fan site into what Ben Horowitz, an early backer of the company who put in $ 15 million, calls the digital equivalent of the Talmud, the volumes of biblical commentary produced by generations of rabbis that have arguably had more influence on the development of modern civilization than the Bible itself.

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

If you could go back and see the idiot they based the Jesus story on, you'd see someone who would spit on you for being a non-Jew and who would probably snarl about how his race is superior to yours despite being saddled with ridiculous random rules handed down by fat greasy slobs of rabbis for hundreds of years.

Surprisingly, the council of rabbis sided with the young rabbi on the grounds that it was not true to the spirit of Judaism to be opposed to all change.

They appear here either as the disciples of a rabbi who empowers them to make authoritative decisions on legal questions, or as priests authorized to give or withhold absolution of sins.

We would do well to recall the words of the rabbi who was challenged by his pupils with the question, «Why is it that you rabbis often put your teachings in the form of a question?»

He said readers of the Yiddish - language paper used to see photos of rabbis with their wives and that there was then a time when the women were blurred.

«There's a lovely Hasidic story of a rabbi who always told his people that if they studied the Torah, it would put Scripture on their hearts.

These were the words of a rabbi from a synagogue in Bosnia Herzegovina...

There are a small number of rabbis who automatically permit certain types of birth control for 24 months after birth.

New York Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino's campaign was deeply tarnished after he told a group of Rabbis in Brooklyn that children shouldn't be «brainwashed» into thinking it's okay to be gay.

Read the other way — the artist was the child of a rabbi, after all — it implies a vibrant dawning.

Saul Leiter (1923 - 2013) was born in Pittsburgh, the son of a rabbi who was a distinguished Talmudic scholar.

The greatest of the rabbis were convinced that everything in the Law and prophets spoke only of fulfilment in the days of the Messiah».

The FBI is investigating a rash of anti-Semitic attacks in northern New Jersey, including the attempted murder of a rabbi after incendiary devices were thrown at his home above a synagogue.

Combined with the site of the slaughter - a synagogue in West Jerusalem - the targeting of rabbis struck at the soul of Jews around the world, several Jewish leaders said Tuesday.

Most of our knowledge of the Pharisees comes from the second - century literature of the rabbis, who were the heirs of the Pharisees.

To prove that he is correct and that the oven is pure, Rabbi Eliezer calls on God to perform miracles in the presence of his colleagues — a carob tree is uprooted and moves across a field, a river reverses its course, and the walls of the rabbis» study hall magically begin to cave in — but the rabbis remain unmoved.

Hence, the majority of Rabbis are NOT of the tribe of Levi, hence those laws can not be enforced.

As Phelps» daughter reminded me, there is a venerable American history of religious protests against the coercive power of the federal government, running from the anti-slavery and female suffrage advocacy of nineteenth - century evangelicals to the civil rights agitation of rabbis and members of the black church.

If she converted and actually had a panel of rabbi's that included a conservative rabbi, she is recognized by evryone as Jewish except those «ultra» ortodox.

The motive of the rabbis was less to elaborate on the sketchy traces of belief in afterlife within the Bible than to make sense of their faith in the justice of God.

Marx's father, Hirschel Marx, a lawyer, was a descendant of a respected family of rabbis.

Elsewhere Nietzsche says that the process of decay that had begun with the death of Jesus was concluded by Paul, who used «the cynical logic of a rabbi.»

Generations of Hebrew monotheism lie behind this sturdy faith, and in addition there is a Singer family tradition: Isaac is the son as well as the grandson of rabbis, and as a youth he studied in rabbinical schools.

The anointing of rabbis and ministers to «heal the broken - hearted» in the tradition of Isaiah and Jesus is involved here.

To help me with my task, I have explored the teachings of my own tradition, the writings of the rabbis, as well as the wisdom of scientists, philosophers and poets through the ages.

Jerold S. Auerbach, author of Rabbis and Lawyers: The Journey from Torah to Constitution, is Professor of History at Wellesley College.

There is a fine Hasidic tale of a rabbi who went to a place in the forest, lit a candle, said a prayer, and told a story.

It can not come from an obscurantist who behaves as though nothing had happened and is content to repeat the shibboleths of a short - circuited dogmatism, or to take over the exegesis of Luther naïvely and uncritically, to say nothing of the allegorical interpretations of the Rabbis.

Nicodemus, you are experienced in detecting the subtle nuances in the thought of a rabbi.

Instinctively I became a pupil, almost with a sense of being in a school of the rabbis, learning the concentration of Talmudic exposition.

(CNN)-- Video of GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry dancing with a group of rabbis during Hanukkah surfaces on YouTube.

One may at this point note that among his adherents were women, who are elsewhere never included among the followers of a rabbi.

So far as the obedience demanded is intention, «intention» applies equally to the ethic of the rabbis and to that of Jesus.

However we can not doubt that the characteristics of a rabbi appeared plainly in Jesus» ministry and way of teaching, unless the tradition has radically distorted the picture.

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.

That too is a technical term, and designates the pupils of a rabbi, not the members of a religious fellowship.

His intercourse with sinners, prostitutes, and publicans, which is surely historical, is also alien to the practices of a rabbi.