Sentences with phrase «of a rabbi from»

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.

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

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It's difficult to argue that the humble rabbi from the Galilee didn't exist, but it's incredibly easy to argue that there is no evidence that he was a son of any god, actually performed miracles, or that much of his legend isn't based upon prior myths of dying and rising hero / gods.

Scholasticism Theology moved from the monastery to the university Western theology is an intellectual discipline rather than a mystical pursuit Western theology is over-systematized Western Theology is systematized, based on a legal model rather than a philosophical model Western theologians debate like lawyers, not like rabbis Reformation Catholic reformers were excommunicated and formed Protestant churches Western churches become guarantors of theological schools of thought Western church membership is often contingent on fine points of doctrine Some western Christians believe that definite beliefs are incompatible with tolerance The atmosphere arose in which anyone could start a church The legal model for western theology intensifies despite the rediscovery of the East

The 20th century Jewish rabbi Abraham Heschel wrote concerning the Sabbath: «When the Romans met the Jews and noticed their strict adherence to the law of abstaining from labor on the Sabbath, their only reaction was contempt.

I loved the responses from the director of the Islamic center as well as the rabbi.

'» While the feminine participle «omeneth refers to a woman who nurses a child (2 Sam 4:4; Ruth 4:16) the masculine participle «omen can simply designate a male «guardian,» «attendant,» or «foster father» of children (i.e., someone who cares for all their needs), as the very example cited by the rabbi from Isa 49:23 indicates (so also 2 Kings 10:1, 5).

satans aim was to stop the fulfillment of the seed that would crush satan underfoot.This hybrid between the angels and man created giants abominations in Gods eyes.They also were a threat to Gods people as can be seen by the giants in the land of caanan after the flood.If we agree on that then there is no way that Eve would have had intercourse with satan [false doctrine of the seed of satan -RCB- because the blood lines were still untainted by angelic beings or satan at the time of Noah maybe that is also why the genealogy of Christ is well presented with no surprises apart from Hagar and Ruth these two were gentiles that shows Gods mercy grace was always there to all nations he accepts people by faith not by race.Prior to the flood the mixing of the angels and man must have been widespread after the flood these beings were present but in limited numbers and God told his people to destroy them as they were abominations but they were a threat to Gods people.It would be interesting to hear what the rabbis had to say on this matter as i would think the stories would have been past down from generation to the next.Especially regarding the flood.God promised he would never flood the earth again but a time is coming when the earth will be judged not by flood but by fire Jesus is our ark and we are safe in him.brentnz

Yes, religion is a form of insanity / delusion when people continue to believe this childish nonsense about a big guy in the sky and some schizophrenic rabbi they believe came back from the dead and refuse the real world all around.

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.

The canon had been determined by bishops and rabbis and received from the ancient church without question by the Reformers, just as they continued to receive the dogmatic decisions of the ancient councils.

It occurred to me that if my faith managed to survive all of these doubts then this radical rabbi, this God in sandals, would require more from me than ever before.

The book of Job has served as a philosophical Rorschach blot for its most outspoken interpreters, from the Talmudic rabbis and Church Fathers through their medieval philosophical successors and down to modern philosophers, theologians, and creative writers.

The church also partners with a local rabbi from time to time for conversation around Hebrew Scripture and offers a variety of Bible study / book club options.

In interviews with CNN, religious leaders from Newtown, the site of last year's school shooting where 20 children and six adults were killed, said that a recent gun control agreement does not do enough to fight gun violence, leading one rabbi to doubt whether Congress was actually working for the American people.

Director Niki Caro keeps the camera pointed away from both Jewish and Christian faith, besides a brief scene of two Rabbis praying as they face certain death on the business end of a Nazi flamethrower.

I'd just about given up when in January I found a message in my inbox from Ahava — an Orthodox Jew and mother of three who lives in Israel and is married to a rabbi.

Speak with the voice of Mary of Bethany, whose discipleship broke with convention but whose valor in sitting at her rabbi's feet will never be taken away from her.

And according to the rabbis of old the divine craftsman worked from a plan that was none other than the Torah itself.

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.

In fact, every rabbi cited by my Jewish correspondents — from Rabbi Meir of the Mishnah, to Maimonides, to Rabbi Moses Cordevero — recited these blessings, which ask God to return most human beings to Him in wholehearted repentance, but also to «uproot, smash, cast down» the wantonly sinful.

Countering the charge from some quarters that Italian Judaism has been relatively silent, the paper points to a 2007 column by Riccardo Di Segni, the chief rabbi of Rome.

Six years ago, Areleh Harel, an Orthodox rabbi from the West Bank, devised a plan to help an Orthodox Jewish gay man fulfill his dream of becoming a husband and father while keeping him in good standing with the Jewish law and his community of believers.

Studying the images of Jesus cherished by successive ages — from rabbi in the first century to universal man in the Renaissance to liberator in the 19th and 20th centuries — Pelikan suggests that the way a particular age depicted Jesus is an essential key to understanding that age.

From CNN's Kelly Marshall: Hours before the Senate Armed Services Committee passed a measure Thursday that would repeal «don't ask, don't tell,» a group of pastors, priests and rabbis gathered in the Capitol to encourage lawmakers to retain the ban on gays in the military.

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.

Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld says that when people hear about the downfall of an enemy, rabbis often remind them of a verse from Proverbs: «Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles.»

If you had heard anything from the Jewish rabbis of your day, you would know that this man named Jesus was a threat to the peace, order, safety, and security of your life within the Roman Empire.

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.

We may learn from the rabbis the marvelous rhythm of deep interpretive dispute and profound common yielding in joy and affectionate well - being.

A criminal complaint alleges that the rabbis charged Jewish wives tens of thousands of dollars to orchestrate kidnappings and accepted $ 20,000 for such an operation from undercover FBI agents.

Since The Romans had (as they always did, eventually) taken the ultimate legal Authority from the Jewish Rabbis in Israel (the Sceptre) and the Messiah had not come (as the Rabbi's still claim, then surely Abraham (the Father Of faith) is a false prophet?

Religions are what we make out from them to be... if we what them to be religions for loving and caring we could... or otherwise we can make out of them to be religions for hating and hitting others as well we could... So really it depends on what our religious leaders popes, imams, rabbis call for... but if those managed to control theirs who will control the non religious??

It offers the standard Hebrew text, a parallel English translation (edited by Chaim Potok, best known as the author of «The Chosen»), a page - by - page exegesis, periodic commentaries on Jewish practice and, at the end, 41 essays by prominent rabbis and scholars on topics ranging from the Torah scroll and dietary laws to ecology and eschatology.

Beck's comments came after a group of 400 rabbis, many from the Reform movement, took out a full - page ad in The Wall Street Journal blasting him for comments he made about the Holocaust.

ADF spokesman Greg Scott said the organization contacted «pastors, priests and rabbis from every major denomination,» and knows of 33 clergy in 23 states who intend to take part on Sunday.

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.

The rabbis explain in an ancient midrash why the next verses in Jeremiah contain a promise of God: «Keep your voice from weeping... there is hope for your future... your children shall come back.»

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

Neither this version nor the one in the synoptic tradition tells us anything about the views of the afterlife held by the rabbis and Jesus respectively; those details are supplied from -LRB-?

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.

Once such patronage disappeared (imams in the House of Islam being much more powerful, needless to say, than were rabbis in the Christian West), Aristotle soon faded from the mental horizon of Arab civilization.

Some of the rabbis said clearly «the world was not made except for the Messiah,» and «from the beginning of the world God desired to dwell among His creatures and this desire was fulfilled when the tabernacle was erected in the wilderness.»

This saying from a first century collection of Syrian Rabbis echoes the exact word used in the prologue of St. John «The Word was made flesh and tabernacled (literally: «pitched his tent») among us» (John 1:14).

I would not hesitate to go to a wedding, funeral, graduation, retirement party, baby shower, ballgame, courtroom, birthday party, family reunion, public hearing, town parade, school play, or other social function due to the presence or lack of a 1 - 2 minute prayer from a pastor, priest, rabbi, imam, valedictorian, mayor, police chief, council member, or 3rd grader who will play the Tree in the school spring play, nor would I feel it appropriate or necessary to make a social scene just so everyone could hear my opinion on the matter.

Just days after criminal charges were filed against a rabbi in Germany for performing circumcisions comes major news from Yair Rosenberg in Tablet magazine: America's leading group of pediatricians is set to endorse the procedure.

Typically the sale works this way: The rabbi collects forms from his congregation with the estimated value of their chametz and the location where it will be stored through Passover.

But I also find substance is the response of many people — from Sir Immanuel Jakobowits, the chief rabbi of Britain, to writers in Christianity Today to delegates to the 1987 Southern Baptist Convention — that the promotion of condoms could easily encourage promiscuity.

In the Fourth Gospel, the first inquiry a Jew made of Jesus came from a rabbi, learned, aristocratic, a ruler of his people; Jesus» first contact with the Samaritans was with a woman of ill repute, humble and socially unimportant, even unacceptable.

This is why I say you have to learn the Torah only from an Orthodox rabbi, because he has learned the text in the original Hebrew and knows the meanings of all the words, including the names of G - d used therein.