Sentences with phrase «old rabbi»

Albom's first nonfiction book since Tuesdays with Morrie, Have a Little Faith begins with an unusual request: an eighty - two - year - old rabbi from Albom's old hometown asks him to deliver his eulogy.

The second is spoken to a Bar Mitzvah boy by a wizened old rabbi, quoting Jefferson Airplane in a scene that (like much of the film) teeters on the edge between anguish and absurdity.

Aw, I think He'd spend our whole national budget on toga parties, since we're making up stuff about a two thousand year - old rabbi.

This story tells us that there was an old rabbi of great wisdom whose fame had spread far beyond his own congregation to the villages and rabbis on the other side of the mountain.

When the old rabbi stopped by a few days later, I told him that my rabbi OK'd the date.

Not exact matches

And Jews should burn their copies of the OT / Torah for the 6000 year old con job pulled on them by their past and current rabbis.

This is what he said: Some rabbis of old forbade calculating the End, on the grounds that the time of it was a mystery, but also expressed the wish not to be there when it happened, since the sufferings that went with it would be too terrible.

After the final destruction of the temple in Jerusalem, Jewish rabbis began teaching prayer as a substitute for the old offerings.

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

However, every (non-messianic) Jewish «Old Testament» scholar and rabbi adamantly states that there is not one single prophecy in the Hebrew Bible about Jesus.

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.

He could assume all that was best in the Old Testament, and in the teaching of contemporary rabbis.

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.»

The Septuagint was discarded as too free a rendering of the Old Testament, and other, even painfully literal, translations took its place — it too was abandoned to the Christians, and one rabbi even proposed to commemorate it by an annual day of fasting.

There's an old Jewish joke that goes, «Ask two rabbis a question and you'll get three opinions.»

And Orthodox Jews should burn their copies of the OT / Torah for the 6000 year old con job pulled on them by their past and current rabbis.

So, can a rabbi, a Christian and an atheist make sense of the Old Testament today?

They fall under the spell of one or another charismatic rabbi (or «Rebbe»), a phenomenon for which a precedent already existed in the century - old Hasidic communities of Lubavitch, Satmar, Belz and other less well known East - European centers.

Martin Buber tells the story of an old Hasidic master who asked a rabbi what puzzled him most about his neighbor.

Finally, in desperation, the young rabbi sought out the synagogue's 99 - year - old founder.

We should care when a rabbi tells a mother she shouldn't nurse her 9 - month - old more than once a day and he hopes to see her with a new baby in a year's time.

You can sit and watch people go by for hours — the old lady walking her wobbly poodle, the way the man rests his hand on his girlfriend's lower back, the rabbi in his black furry hat perspiring in the heat, the young mom with her whining toddler talking on her mobile phone.

She travels there, only to receive a confused and lukewarm greeting from her old friend Dovid (Alessando Nivola); Dovid had been the rabbis student and is now being considered as a successor.

However, neither are the Rabbis willing to condemn or criticize — they are following traditions and beliefs thousands of years old dictated by the Torah and the Talmud, which they believe to be immutable.

After the death of her rabbi father, New York photographer (Rachel Weisz) returns home to the Hasidic neighbourhood in North London that she abandoned years before, instigating anxiety among old friends and relatives, and rekindling an old forbidden passion.

The kink in this picture is Jenna Elfman's Anna, the old childhood friend of Jake and Brian, who swishes into town and promptly falls in love with our rabbi.

A woman (Rachel Weisz) returns to her Orthodox Jewish home after the death of her rabbi father and stirs up controversy when she shows an interest in an old childhood friend.

Soon she is drawn into the lives of her old friends, particularly that of Rachel McAdams as the wife of a rabbi.

The unlikely and sometimes hilarious adventures of the ancient rabbi, as well as those of his «discoverer,» 15 - year - old Bernie Karp, make up the contemporary half of this entertaining adventure.

Moving between their worlds, Christian and Jewish, African - American and white, impoverished and well - to - do, Albom observes how these very different men employ faith similarly in fighting for survival: the older, suburban rabbi embracing it as death approaches; the younger, inner - city pastor relying on it to keep himself and his church afloat.

Greene recounts the 1958 bombing of the oldest synagogue in Atlanta, «The Temple,» targeted by white supremacists who were upset by the rabbi presiding there, Jacob Rothschild, and his liberal views on civil rights.

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

During the protest, leading Rabbis sharply attacked Israel's conscription policy, passed in 2014, curtailing a 60 year old policy exempting all Yeshiva students from military service.

The report contains lots of fond recollections from Abramoff's old colleagues, Rabbis and friends, who knew him back when and recall his generosity and helpfulness.

Dorfman, who is 60 years old, came to the law as a second career in 1998, following his first career as a rabbi.