Sentences with phrase «rabbi about»

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.

I spoke to a rabbi about Isreal once, he called it the greatest threat Judaism has ever faced.

While various disputes occurred among the rabbis about the precise nature of these laws, and even whether they are more or less than seven in number, in every version of them the prohibition of idolatry for gentiles is prominently featured.

Why are you asking the Rabbis about value of palestianian lives.

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.

Whether it is a rabbi questioning the loyalty of American Muslims to the U.S. Olympic teams, epithets shouted at Muslims by protesters outside a community event, or the director of an American Muslim organization questioning a congressman and, in turn, being rebuked, it is clear that what another congressman sees as hearings that will shine light, the targeted community is worried about the heat that will be turned on as a result.

If these seders were conducted by rabbis perhaps they would be more acceptable as a learning experience about Jewish rituals.

What it is you are saying or nor saying about Rabbis and their relationship to Torah, I can't quite make out.

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).

• You might think about putting your pastor or rabbi on that list of potential subscribers you were going to send.

The reality is that, at that stage of the dying process, these folks need to talk about what THEY need to talk about, not what ANY minister, priest, rabbi, imam thinks / feels they should talk about!

In the Talmud, the fundamental Jewish legal text, there is an extended discussion about the phrase «eye for an eye,» with multiple rabbis arguing, and the text concluding, that the phrase means nothing other than financial compensation.

They should have reprinted the articles about the NYC ultra-orthodox child abusers and how they are as bad as the RCC in hiding pedo - rabbis and assorted other low - lifes.

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.

Some people feel this way about pastors, ministers, priests, imams, rabbis, etcetera.

Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren hosted the dinner at his residence, with about 65 guests in attendance, including imams, rabbis and officials from the White House, Congress and the State Department, according to Israeli Embassy spokesman Lior Weintraub.

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.

Many centuries before Hegel, the rabbis of the Talmud mastered the «determinate negation,» the rejection of an idea that reveals an insight about both that idea and its relatives.

That it was unusual for a Jewish rabbi to be unmarried and there was much debate about this for a long time, as there still is today.

God was represented by one of the ancient rabbis as saying, «When they read before me the laws about sacrifices, I will impute it to them as if they offered the sacrifices before me, and will have mercy upon them for all their misdeeds.»

At a recent gathering hosted by The Samuel Bronfman Foundation, which asked precisely that question, just about the only thing the group of leading Jewish scholars, writers, rabbis, and professors could agree on was that there is no longer one story, narrative, or idea that could hold the totality or even a majority of Jews together.

Rapturists think there is something special about Rabbis with their flocks.

The rabbi's traditionally understood the sin of sodom being about inhospitality as the Bible itself understands it being about inhospitality.

A rabbi once told me that this story about David was included in the Scriptures to make the point that even the most moral of persons can fall, the most powerful people have weaknesses, and no one, not even David, is perfect.

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.

My father, son of a Polish rabbi, while completing his own rabbinical studies in Switzerland was introduced to the New Testament, not by an eager gentile missionary but by his overhearing (quite by accident) a discussion about Jesus in some university hall.

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.»

I've also interviewed Christian ministers, a rabbi, a imam and a Buddhist scholar about the significance of their spiritual homes, pressing them to explain how they reconcile their sometimes opulent houses of worship with the fact that religion is ultimately about transcending worldly things.

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.

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.

Maybe knowing what these terms actually mean will be helpful in future discussions about this topic, because using them imprecisely is similar to a nonbeliever saying «Well have fun at Sunday school in your mosque with the rabbi.»

What would Jesus» Jewish audience have thought if this Jewish rabbi started teaching them about Greek gods, and alluding to Zeus?

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.

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.

Young men — not just those who spend time in locker rooms — need their dads, uncles, male teachers, ministers, rabbis, and other adult men in their lives to teach them how to appreciate and talk about women.

Nice of us to worry so much about what it means, and ignore that Jewish rabbis and scholars have been commentating on it for millenia.

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-?

We will be discussing the Apostle Paul's words about women later in the series, but it's worth noting here that 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.

About halfway through the 90 minutes scheduled for the tour, White had disappeared and told the rabbi that he had an event to attend.

That's why I get excited about bringing an atheist, a Christian and a rabbi together to debate an issue.

Two thousand years ago the rabbis were asking exactly the Rabbi Dawkins» questions about the text, grappling over what to do with Lot, and condemning him.

I ask 3 different Rabbis from 3 different Jews websites about her.

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

«When you think about the process, you have to go and see the rabbi,» Herzfeld said.

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.

The rabbis» observations underscore this point: God was speaking about the Canaanites back then, and there are no more Canaanites today.

The anecdote about the confirmation service attended by Prof. Wilken's rabbi friend effectively dramatizes the uneasiness contemporary Jews must have when hearing the preaching of the New Testament church.

It's not about Jewish history, and it doesn't have a single rabbi in it.

A letter from about 30 prominent rabbis» wives was causing a stir in Israel Wednesday because it urges Israeli girls not to date Arabs.

So it's not like the Catholic Church being asked to hire rabbis to teach about Jesus.