Sentences with phrase «rabbinical learning»

Christians and Jews were peoples of the book whom Muslims would tolerate» indeed Jews, who were a majority of the city's population, thrived in Ottoman Salonica and made it a center of rabbinical learning» but only if they paid a high tax and accepted second - class status.

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We find ourselves quite unconvinced by much of the ancient rabbinical reasoning, a little of which is reflected in the letters of Paul.7 Nevertheless the Jews spent much time trying to learn how the Scriptures they had inherited from a former period were to be seen as relevant to their own day.

They're guided by senior rabbinical scholars, but the scholars themselves become, as they walk around the study hall, part of the learning dialogue and expand their own understanding of the sacred text.