Sentences with phrase «one's rabbi»

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.
«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.»
Paladino's defense — made in a string of TV and radio interviews and repeated as he was mobbed by reporters at the Columbus Day Parade on Fifth Avenue — came a day after he used remarks prepared by others on the topic as he paid a visit to Orthodox Jewish rabbis in Brooklyn, and made national news with his comments.
Via Rod Dreher, columnist and former First Things contributor David Goldman («Spengler») contrasts the benedictions delivered by rabbis at the Republican and Democratic National Conventions:
Oh hahaha, pastor as rabbi as officiator as well sometimes....
And what would your local Jewish rabbi say about Isaiah 53?
In Disobedience, Ronit Krushka (Rachel Weisz) is working as a photographer in New York City when she receives a message that her father, a beloved and respected Orthodox rabbi in London, has died.
The OU is at the forefront of this worldwide industrialization with Rabbis who have specialized expertise in all areas of food production.
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.
Therefore in the Jewish tradition, in Jewish law, redeeming captives trumps just about everything else,» said Ascherman, of Rabbis for Human Rights.
Via Rod Dreher, columnist and former First Things contributor David Goldman («Spengler») contrasts the benedictions delivered by rabbis at the Republican and Democratic National Conventions: One difference between the two addresses is the fact that the whole Republican convention heard....
Their preachers taught God's truth, unlike today when preachers and rabbis tell folks what they want to hear (man made lies to stroke their egos) instead of Jesus» truth.
Ronit (Weisz) is happily single and living a vibrant life as a photographer in New York, but she is estranged from her highly respected Orthodox rabbi father in London.
Furthermore, while pious Jews throughout history have consulted rabbis on points of Jewish law, one can not imagine antebellum Southern Jews, whose observance of basic scriptural laws like the Sabbath and the dietary requirements was minimal, taking seriously any rabbinic judgment against such a basic social institution as slavery, even had one been offered.
And the young rabbi said, «On the other side, the sins of youth are of no account whatsoever?
The young rabbi asked his Jewish companion, «Do you think our God is listening to him?»
Some items can be kosher but NOT kosher l'pessach (and it is always best to ask a competent rabbi about it, as the certification for Pessach takes into account the processing and packaging procedures), and what is considered kitniot, kitniot change according to customs and interpretation.
Typically, when Jewish Rabbis taught the Torah, they taught it straight through (cf. Neh 8:8), and this is probably how Jesus taught (cf. Luke 4:16 - 21; 4:31; 6:6; 13:10).
He has said the speaker belongs in Attica, suggested it was wrong for Erie County Executive Chris Collins to apologize for comparing the Orthodox Jewish Democrat to an anti-Christ and Hitler and stood by, smiling and nodding, while an ultra-Orthodox rabbi called Silver a «baby - killer.»
The ultra-orthodox Rabbis don't like it, but that's about it.
If Jesus followed this pattern, then it would have been the normal teaching habit of Jesus to go every Saturday to a local Synagogue where He would teaching interactively through a book of the Hebrew Scriptures, and interact with other Rabbis who also taught that day.
I don't understand the hatred between some blacks and the Jewish community because I remember the Levys and I remember the great rabbi who stood with D. A. Holmes in Kansas City way before Martin Luther King, Jr., brought that kind of ecumenicity.
Noted rabbis give more in - depth shiurim to attendees on Shabbat or weekday evenings, usually in the local synagogue or beth midrash (study hall).45.
The two rabbis speak under cloak of darkness, and Jesus says that whatever happens to Nicodemus will resemble the winds of chance on a warm Judean night.
My grandfather was an orthodox rabbi as well as holding a pHD in theology.
While Joffe has deeply conflicted feelings about disturbing human remains, he says he's come to believe — as many rabbis also have — that the historical value of limited investigations like those at the Reinhard camps helps outweigh the drawbacks.
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.
Here's some footage of Carl Paladino meeting with Hasidic rabbis in Williamsburg earlier today, reading from remarks that his campaign says were prepared for him in advance by Orthodox supporters.
Simcha Goldman, an Orthodox Jew and ordained rabbi serving as a clinical psychologist in an Air Force hospital, wore a yarmulke at all times and contended that an Air Force dress code regulation which forbade the wearing of «headgear» (such as a yarmulke) while indoors infringed upon his First Amendment right to free exercise of his religious belief.
As one Parkland, Florida, rabbi put it after the attack there a week ago, a shooting reverberates throughout the population — no one is truly untouched by such a tragedy.
According to Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky, a prominent Conservative rabbi in New York City, family members increasingly struggle with the wrenching question of whether to go against the wishes of dead Jews who have asked to be cremated.
That is not quite true: Jewish law requires a divorced woman to cover her hair, although a famous rabbi recently wrote that if a divorced woman needs to bare her head for marriage or to earn a living, she may do so.
This question was a matter of serious debate among rabbis in Jesus» time.
The radical rabbi from Nazareth spoke so often of humble obedience and quiet service, pomp and grandeur don't seem like his style.
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.
But as I mentioned on Monday, when first - century rabbis like Jesus and Paul allude to the stories of the Torah, including the creation accounts, they are not participating in «straight exegesis» as we would understand it today.
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.
It is how scientists know that Earth is 4.5 billion years old and not 6,004 years, as some biblical literalists believe — or 5,765 years old, as some Orthodox rabbis believe.
Just this week, there was a conference call between Ira Forman, Jewish Outreach Director for the Obama campaign, and Jewish leaders, and a scheduled call with Obama and American rabbis for Thursday, according to Moline.
Roger E. Herst, author of «A Simple Formula for Raising Happy Children», is an ordained Reform rabbi with MBA and doctorate degrees.
Rabbi Jason Miller of Farmington Hills, Mich., who is a part - time rabbi at Congregation B'nai Israel in Sylvania, Ohio, and director of Kosher Michigan, says the holidays are a good fit with each other.
The movie is called The Frisco Kid, and it's about a Polish rabbi making his way across the Wild West on horseback, a meshuggeneh cowboy who dresses something like Wyatt Earp and talks like Myron Cohen.
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