Rabbis Sentence Examples

He was one of the first rabbis trained at the new type of seminary (Breslau).

How well their teaching served his purpose is shown by the sayings of two rabbis who, if not identical with these Pharisees, belong to their period and their party.

Towards the end of Herod's life two rabbis attempted to uphold by physical force the cardinal dogma of Judaism, which prohibited the use of images.

Such is the account which Josephus gives in the Antiquities; in the Jewish War he represents the rabbis and their disciples as looking forward to greater happiness for themselves after such a death.

They still looked for a true prophet, and meanwhile they had their rabbis.

Though the majority of the rabbis looked for no such deliverer and refused to admit his claims, Barcochebas drew the people after him to struggle for their national independence.

Exception has been taken to a certain lack of sympathy with the Jews, especially the rabbis, which has been detected in the author.

Within the Synagogue the reform movement began in 1825, and soon won many successes, the central conference of American rabbis and Union College (1875) at Cincinnati being the instruments of this progress.

Some rabbis interpreted Israel's dispersion as divinely designed for the very purpose of proselytizing (Pesahim 87b.).

The later Rabbis wore most sumptuous apparel, and were crowned until the death of Eliezer ben Azarya.

According to Neubauer, it is the very text which was used by Jerome, after allowance has been made for the arbitrary methods of the Rabbis and of Jerome himself.

If they died, death was inevitable, the rabbis said, and no better death would they ever find.

It is more than a mere coincidence that this step was taken during the absence in England of one of the ablest and most notable of the Amsterdam rabbis.

Ben Adret, with the approval of other prominent Spanish rabbis, sent a letter to the community at Montpellier proposing to forbid the study of philosophy to those who were less than thirty years of age, and, in spite of keen opposition from the liberal section, a decree in this sense was issued by ben Adret in 1305.

The result was a great schism among the Jews of Spain and southern France, and a new impulse was given to the study of philosophy by the unauthorized interference of the Spanish rabbis.

As a corollary of this he founded in 1875 the "Hebrew Union College" in the same city, and this institution has since trained a large number of the rabbis of America.

Wise also organized various general assemblies of rabbis, and in 1889 established the Central Conference of American Rabbis.

The sect was called by the Rabbis Boethusians as being friendly to the family of Boethus, whose daughter Mariamne was one of Herod the Great's wives.

It is characterized by extreme literalness, and clearly reflects the peculiar system of exegesis which was then in vogue among the Jewish rabbis.

Moreover, none of the writers are before the Roman period, and many relied on are medieval rabbis.

For a time Christian scholars still leaned mainly on the Rabbis.

Moreover it is clear that our Lord denounced not all the Pharisees but the hypocrites only, as did the rabbis whose sayings are reported in the Talmud and other Jewish books.

Similarly the term Rabbins, or Rabbis, is applied to modern Jewish clergy.

This declaration disturbs the rabbis, who regard it as a blasphemous usurpation of Divine authority.

The rabbis had fenced the Sabbath round with minute commands, lest any Jews should even seem to work on the Sabbath day.

The controversy was renewed when a man with a withered hand appeared in the synagogue on the Sabbath, and the rabbis watched to see whether Jesus would heal him.

It is recorded in the Talmud that Rabbis communicated the true pronunciation to their disciples once in seven years (Qiddushin, 71a).

Threatened with excommunication by the Rabbis of Jerusalem, Sabbatai returned to Smyrna (autumn of 1665).

Talmud by the Qaraites in their controversies with the Rabbis we owe the preservation of this recension, incomplete though it is.

The Talmud states that many rabbis were born in the place.

It is enacted that in such a case the rabbis shall begin with a light fast of three days (Monday, Thursday, Monday), i.e.

Near here is Meirun, a place much revered by the Jews as containing the tombs of Hillel, Shammai and Simon ben Yohai; a yearly festival in honour of these rabbis is here celebrated.

Not till the 14th century were Jewish rabbis paid officials.

It was during his absence that the Amsterdam Rabbis excommunicated Spinoza, a catastrophe which would probably have been avoided had Menasseh - Spinoza's teacher - been on the spot.

Verse 33, " And again your rabbis have said, Thou shalt not perjure thyself but make sure you perform all your oaths.

It is said that even rabbis would stop teaching when a wedding processional passed by to honor the couple.

Nor did the rabbis like the book's teaching about corrupt angels.

Such a decree signed by the rabbis of the " Arrangement Yeshivot " is tenfold worse.

This of course creates a certain friction with orthodox rabbis, who tend to look backward, at tradition.

In its material embodiments Greek civilization became as much a part of Jewish life in Palestine as it was in Alexandria or Antioch; and herein the rabbis could not follow him.

By their labours in the education of the youth of the nation, these rabbis, Judas and Matthias, had endeared themselves to the populace and had gained influence over their disciples.

It was now necessary to go farther, and the rabbis proclaimed a principle which was as influential with the synagogue as "Give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's " became with the Church.

Unfortunately the methods pursued were as little reasonable as those adopted by the medieval Jewish Rabbis; instead of the context being studied as a whole, with a view to the recovery of its literal sense, each single verse was considered separately, and explained as an allusion to some obscure myth or as embodying some mystical meaning.

Well said the Jewish rabbis of old, " The Law is a Person ".

They make the trip to Medina to get tricky test questions from the learned Jewish rabbis.

Nor did the rabbis like the book 's teaching about corrupt angels.

Indeed, beginning in 1967, many of the assaults were led by Jewish rabbis.

Carole Regan then read extracts from a statement by the anti-Zionist rabbis present on the platform.

Does the inscription mention Jews, synagogues, synagogue leaders, rabbis, etc.

After Biblical Hebrew a later form of the language was used by the early rabbis in their voluminous writings.

The great saying of each of these rabbis is concerned with the duties of a judge; the selection does justice to the importance of the Sanhedrin, which was filled with Pharisees.

His zeal, private and public, for Judaism is celebrated by Josephus and the rabbis; and the narrative of Acts xii.

The coeval origin of consonants and vowels had indeed been questioned or denied by the earliest reformers (Luther, Zwingli, Calvin), but later, in the period of Protestant scholasticism and under the influence of one school of Jewish Rabbis, Protestant scholars in particular, and especially those .of the Swiss school, notably the Buxtorfs, had committed themselves to the view that the vowels formed an integral and original part of the text of the Old Testament; and this they maintained with all the more fervency.

In making allowance for the defects (without which they would probably not have appealed to the age) it must be remembered that some of the Rabbis themselves recognized that the Midrashic Haggada was not always estimable.

The Rabbis apparently dreaded the possibility of such terms becoming hypostasized into personal entities distinct from God.