Sentences with phrase «son of a rabbi»

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

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It's difficult to argue that the humble rabbi from the Galilee didn't exist, but it's incredibly easy to argue that there is no evidence that he was a son of any god, actually performed miracles, or that much of his legend isn't based upon prior myths of dying and rising hero / gods.

Jesus» original disciples likely never thought of him as anything more than a great rabbi, and some might have thought him a good rallying point for a revolt, they could have even whispered that he was anointed by God, but the idea of his being divine only seems to enter into the gospels around the time many Greek educated folks had converted, bringing their own views of what a «son of God» means into the faith.

The son of a noted Orthodox rabbi and a product of the modern Orthodox social and educational system, Greenberg was almost defeated by the Holocaust's absolute devaluing of life.

Perhaps the only thing more absurd than believing that an ancient Palestinian rabble rousing rabbi was the Son of God is believing that Haile Selassie is His 2nd coming.

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.

For the Jewish rabbis and for the early Christian theologians «Adam» is a prophetic image of the messianic Son of Man, which means that Christ is prophesied and prefigured not just in the age of innocence before sin, but in the being, in the very flesh and blood of Adam before he fell.

This feeling of duty to stay was not limited to, say, rabbis; I felt it strongly as a teacher in a Jewish grade school, and also as a son.

Our Rabbanit (rabbi's wife) had each of her huge grown sons (many married and big rabbis in their own right), plus all her younger children come and bow their heads before their mother to receive her blessing.

as a student of history and topic, it is almost impossible to believe a rabbi the age of jesus would not be married, it is too obvious that the church wanted to diminish the role and power women had until finally releasing the truth about mary magdeline, jesus» probable wife, they needed to create a divine son of god to give the church power especially after the council of nicea

Then the rabbi told Jim's mother, «Give your son a sense of somebodiness.»

He grew up in Wilkes Barre, Pa., the son of an Orthodox rabbi, and as a teenager attended an Orthodox boarding school that didn't have a basketball team.

The memo also inclues a number of heatfelt letters from Hevesi's friends, family and rabbi, including his sons, former Sen. Dan Hevesi and Assemblyman Andy Hevesi, who were both implicated in and / or impacted by their father's pay - to - play pension fund scandal.

TOTALLY JEWISH — A lonely American rabbi's son is taking the concept of speed dating up a gear by going on 50 blind dates in 50 US states — all in just 50 days.

László Nemes» Son of Saul focuses on a group of Sonderkommando at Auschwitz, (the Jewish prisoners forced to work on the Nazi death camps) and in particular, Saul who amid the chaos of his situation, tries to find a rabbi to bury a child who is among one of the many dead from a recent gassing.

The crux of the story is whether David, the son, will marry the rabbi's daughter

The crux of the story is whether David, the son, will marry the rabbi's daughter as his mother wishes him to do, or will marry the daughter of his father's Chinese business partner.

In the midst of this nightmare, browbeaten police detective Meyer Landsman investigates the murder of a heroin - addicted chess prodigy who happens to be the disgraced son of Sitka's most powerful rabbi.

Rachel Greenberg's parents are on the edge of divorce, her former best friend Alexis is barely speaking to her, her grandmother's health is fading — and while she's theoretically almost - dating handsome, athletic Jake, something about the rabbi's son, Adam, is totally irresistible.Arriving early at her synagogue one day, Rachel accidentally hears an encounter that...