Sentences with phrase «of rabbis who»

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

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.

«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.

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.

Numerous white tombs stretch down the hill with the oldest tomb being a of a rabbi who died in 1600.

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

Not exact matches

Online, my social - media universe was filled with journalists and Jewish communal professionals, rabbis and professors and nonprofit workers, all of whom knew that a Tablet writer had said something offensive about the Harvey Weinstein case — but outside my front door, I encountered people who didn't inhabit my social - media universe.

If you really go down the list looking at every word and the heart behind it in light of scripture and in the light of the law of the Spirit of life you'll find major discrepancies and see how carnal, worldly and unbiblical those points of views really are... I'm concerned about the heart behind such views because it isn't one of a disciple (one who emulates their rabbi and is possessed by the «Holy» Spirit of God).

There was no ctriticism of Jewish rabbi's; only of those who choose tradition over heart felt, childlike faith.

As a closing prayer, Mark Kelly offered a prayer given over Giffords» hospital bed just after the shooting by the rabbi who married the couple in 2007 - that the angel Michael watch over the right side, the angel Gabriel over the left, the angel Uriel - God's angel of light - guiding the path and the angel Raphael - the angel of healing - be behind, and overhead the presence of the Divine.

'» 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).

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 rabbi was one of 200 or so people who came to an Atlanta temple for an event titled «Understanding the Quran,» sponsored by the Southeast Branch of the Anti-Defamation League and the Islamic Speakers Bureau of Atlanta.

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.

Thousands of Jews, mainly of Moroccan origin, gathered to pray and hold festivities at the tomb of the respected rabbi who was known as a miracle maker by religious Jews.

By its standard have been judged the Jews, by the Prophet who bowed (as in Islam) to Allah's will, by the Rabbis and the Doctors of Law: for to them was entrusted the protection of Allah's Book, and they were witnesses thereto: therefore fear not men, but fear Me, and sell not My Signs for a miserable price.

It happened because those first Christians met a young rabbi who promised that, should they believe in him, each of them would become «a spring of water welling up to eternal life» [John 4.14].

Shortly after the vandalism, the city elected its first Haredi mayor, who ran on a platform of moderation, insisting that a temperate, Sephardic Haredi rabbi could and would serve all constituencies equally.

In considering the Easter story, for instance, Cox describes the biblical accounts of Jesus» bodily resurrection as the confused ramblings of disciples who knew no other way to express their feeling that their rabbi remained somehow present in their lives.

In Cox's view, Jesus was a spunky rabbi who spun enigmatic tales intended only to remind Jews of what they already knew.

William Phipps, who has written extensively on the subject of Jesus» sexuality, says Jesus could not have been accepted as a rabbi in the Jewish society of his day had he not been married, and that the marriage in Cana, where his mother as hostess called on him for help with the wine, was probably his own wedding feast.

and to increase his ability to help people who turn to him as rabbi in their time of need.

A widely publicised conflict broke out in one of the synagogues between a conservative elderly rabbi and a radical young rabbi who was all for change.

Herzfeld - who is the rabbi of Ohev Sholom, The National Synagogue, the oldest and largest Orthodox synagogue in Washington, D.C. - says that according to the Talmud, «God does not rejoice with the fall of the wicked.»

She first thought about converting when she married movie producer Mike Todd, her third husband, who'd been born Avrom Goldbogen and was the grandson of a Polish rabbi, Time reported.

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??

The woman in the well story sums this up beautifully — he blew EVERY chance he had to be a proper rabbi by talking to 1) a woman)(ergo property), 2) in public, 3) who was of questionable moral character and 5) a foreigner.

I don't care if it's the LDS leaders, the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses, The Unification Church, Orthodox Church, Amish Bishops or your local priest, pastor, imam or rabbi — men love to control other men and tell them what to believe, how to dress, what to eat, what to wear, who to marry....

I could never bring myself to believe that in all of Jewish history, so many rabbis who had been so smart about so many other things, could be so stupid theologically.

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.

Others see him as a great teacher, a healer or rabbi of extraordinary power, a holy man or prophet who proposed a new covenant between heaven and earth.

He urged that the lost sheep be actively sought out; but except in the way of sheer abuse and bitter vituperation, he did nothing to win over to his conception of religion the Pharisees and rabbis who ventured to criticize and dislike him.

You might want to start with a few google searches on rabbi's who molest children and then see if you can list reasons to believe the miricles of Jewish mythology over those claimed by other religions.

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.

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.

It wasn't clear who had distributed the leaflets, but the chief rabbi of nearby Dnipropetrovsk said, «Everything must be done to catch them.»

Carol Harris - Shapiro, a Reconstructionist rabbi who teaches at Gratz College in Philadelphia and wrote Messianic Judaism: A Rabbi's Journey Through Religious Change in America, attacks Sparks's metaphor head - on: «Both ends of the supposed bridge are on the Christian shore,» she argues.

(Anyone who thinks that Orthodox Judaism is a fossil faith, taken seriously only by a few grey - bearded rabbis, should read Herman Wouk's book This Is My God, a moving testimonial of what it means to be an Orthodox Jew in twentieth - century America.)

There was a Talmudic - era rabbi by the name of Akiva ben Joseph (who argued plenty with another rabbi, Simeon ben Azzai) who argued that the greatest commandment in all of the Torah was to love your neighbor as yourself (to which ben Azzai objected primarily due to neighbor not being clear enough and then said that the greatest commandment was within Genesis 5:1 — that man was created in G - d's image and thus if you hate any person, you are hating G - d).

His counterpart in Roman Catholicism was Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen; but it was the Jewish rabbi, Joshua Loth Liebman, who wrote the first best seller in this category, Peace of Mind.

If, for example, Jesus had simply been a great moral teacher, a gentle rabbi who did nothing more than urge his devoted followers to love God... he would scarcely have been seen as a threat to the social order John the Baptist was imprisoned and executed because of his preaching... Jesus was to fare no better.

And to this extent Jesus is completely in agreement with those rabbis who present the fundamental ideas of the Jewish ethic.

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

It appears that He, like many other Rabbis of His day, began His teaching by reading a text of Scripture, and would then explain the Scripture while taking questions and objections from others who were present.

Is it conceivable that he who as eschatological prophet proclaims the coming of the Kingdom and drives out demons, at the same time as a rabbi teaches his disciples and enters into disputes about questions of the Law which were important at that time?

This is well expressed in the words of a rabbi, who declines to discuss any critical question on the content of the law of purification, explaining that the content is irrelevant: «Death does not make unclean, nor water clean.

For those several people who asked, on air, whether the US had the advice of Muslim religious heads: there are Muslim chaplains aboard with all military groups just as there are Protestant and Catholic ministers, Jewish rabbis, etc..

CNN made no effort to debunk Mr. Messer's claim of being a rabbi, or in anyway noting that Messianic Christians are not Jews, but are Christians who use Jewish cermonies and traditions as part of their worship service.

However, the majority of those involved were ministers, priests, or rabbis who were well known as community leaders, usually in charge of a large influential congregation.

Essentially, the church was formed by Rome thanks to the salesmanship and editorial skills of Paul, who by his writings and interpretations of the various fables and stories surrounding the Jewish rabbi known as Jesus, was able to «de-Jew» those earliest Christian beliefs, thereby making them into something more palatable to the masses, and ultimately to the Roman Emperor Constantine, whose mother converted to the new religion before her death.