Sentences with phrase «of rabbis»

Yet, recently my wife and I listened attentively as one of our Rabbis addressed the congregation on the topic of How Do You Measure Time?

(Are there any other kinds of rabbis?)

[17] He produced at least twenty paintings of rabbis between the mid-80s and 2008.

And if you can set aside the blithe treatment of sex work or the borderline - offensive caricaturing of the Hasidic community — a scene of Allen being called before a council of rabbis veers into questionable territory — there's a delicacy to the dynamic between Turturro and Paradis that's endearing despite the pairing's ludicrousness.

Correction: January 10, 2006, Tuesday A front - page article on Friday about the Bloomberg administration's public health campaign regarding a circumcision rite practiced by some Orthodox Jews gave incorrect names in some copies for the group of rabbis opposing the campaign.

King said he and Paterson were on a fact - finding trip to Israel sponsored by the New York Board of Rabbis to see the damage that Hamas rockets have done in places like Ashkelon.

The King - Paterson trip - it had to be politically bipartisan - is being sponsored by the New York Board of Rabbis, King said.

The report also included: $ 30,000 in payments to Don Lebowitz, a housing consultant used by the Assembly who also serves on the board of the State of New York Mortgage Agency; $ 100 honorariums to a number of rabbis, ministers and an imam, most likely for delivering invocations before legislative sessions; nearly $ 25,000 in vehicle maintenance and repair expenses; and nearly $ 69,000 in custodial expenses.

At 10 a.m., the New York Board of Rabbis, Multifaith Alliance for Syrian Refugees and the New York City Clergy Round Table hold an interfaith forum for religious leaders to discuss the Syrian refugee crisis, Marble Collegiate Church, Fifth Avenue at 29th Streeet, Manhattan.

Another Republican reader writes: «There was a major meeting of rabbis in Monsey last week, and it was decided that no one could vote for Schneiderman because is pro-gay.

New Jersey Rabbi David - Seth Kirshner, an officer on the New York Board of Rabbis, who joined Levin on the show, said the controversial ultra-Orthodox rabbi «doesn't represent the flavor of Judaism for me and for most of the Jewish people in the world.»

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

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.

The sad answer of the rabbis was that nothing new has happened.

In the traditions of the rabbis of Judaism codified in the Mishnah about A.D. 200, there is a tractate called «Yoma» which adds details to the development of the celebration of Yom Kippur.

Before a group of rabbis he once gave learned arguments for the precedence of the Passover over the Sabbath when Passover fell on a Sabbath day.

«Judaism places ultimate value on human life» said Ascherman, of Rabbis for Human Rights.

Arthur Hertzberg tells of a gathering of rabbis» wives where more could say something intelligent about Aquinas than they could about Maimonides.

Jesus» teaching shows in content also a close relationship with that of the rabbis.

Many cases of able - bodied young persons who were given the chance and left, of rabbis who made use of their special standing outside the immigration quota, filled us with sadness and indignation.

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.

We are, rather, asking together how well Barth really understood Torah as good news to Israel (quite well, thank you), and how well he understood the teaching of the rabbis that Torah - living by the Jewish people was living by grace (quite poorly, I'm afraid), and whether the correction of his mistake could produce a better theology for Christian self - understanding and perhaps even something helpful for Jewish theology.

Therefore in the Jewish tradition, in Jewish law, redeeming captives trumps just about everything else,» said Ascherman, of Rabbis for Human Rights.

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

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

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.»

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

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.

Paul had been proud, as some of the rabbis were proud, that he had been born a Jew and a male Jew.

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

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.

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

He attributes the «explosion» set off by his sermon to «the reluctance of rabbis to say what they really believe.»

They found the realism of the parables of Jesus as their distinguishing mark when compared to the parables of the Old Testament and that of the Rabbis.

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.

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.

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

I put this question out to some of my Rabbis Without Borders colleagues, and in addition to seconding the Bereshit Rabbah idea, they recommended Searching for Meaning in Midrash: Lessons for Everyday Living by Michael Katz and Gershon Schwartz and Reading the Book: Making the Bible a Timeless Text by Rabbi Burt Visotzky.

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.

For Hasidim, every waking act is defined by the laws of the Torah; they depend on the teachings of rabbis to guide them in all parts of their day.

I observe that you teach us only a portion of the sacred writings — the best as I view it — and I infer that you reject the teachings of the rabbis to the effect that the words of the law are the very words of God, having been with God in heaven even before the times of Abraham and Moses.

What he said may be paralleled very largely in the teaching of the rabbis of his time and later.

I remind you, Rabbi Jesus never went to school, and yet He was considered an expert by all of the Rabbis.

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.

«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.

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 Galilean public rightly divined that Jesus was here stepping outside the province of a rabbi.

the usual word for disciple of a rabbi is tlmyd.

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.

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