In so doing, they have effectively put an end to the notion of rabbinic authority. From Wordnik.com. [Bradley Burston: If You're Jewish, That's Enough for Me. If Not, Let's Talk Real Estate] Reference
Sometimes the word "rabbinic" is used as an obvious substitute for "talmudic.". From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 3] Reference
During the year-long project, they will urge their rabbinic leaders to. From Wordnik.com. [Fact Sheet On One American Meeting With Religious Leaders] Reference
Conservative Jewry, too, has always been committed to rabbinic tradition. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
As a prerequisite, they had to have mastered the entire rabbinic literature. From Wordnik.com. [The Garden of Kabbalah] Reference
An old rabbinic parable asks us to imagine twins lying together in the womb. From Wordnik.com. [Heaven: Does Lisa Miller's Book Make The Concept Any Less Trite?] Reference
Sanhedrin -- Assembly of seventy rabbis and elders; the major rabbinic court. From Wordnik.com. [Evan Eisenberg: Mary Christ] Reference
The jurisdiction of rabbinic courts is voluntarily accepted by Orthodox Jews. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Shame his own government, and not a few rabbinic councils, reject just war theory then. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
He was the initial rabbinic co-chair the Reform Judaism's national committee on HIV/AIDS. From Wordnik.com. [President Announces Members To Presidential Advisory Council] Reference
He gained rabbinic ordination from Jews 'College as well as from London's Yeshiva Etz Chaim. From Wordnik.com. [The Relationship between the People and God] Reference
Abraham Joshua Heschel, born in Warsaw, was the descendant of two Hasidic rabbinic dynasties. From Wordnik.com. [Prophet Sharing: Discussing the Legacy] Reference
My untrimmed beard had reached rabbinic proportions and my hair looked like electrified Brillo. From Wordnik.com. [When The Bough Breaks]
Rabbi Leah Berkowitz and Rabbi Perry Berkowitz are a dynamic and unique brother and sister rabbinic team. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi Leah and Rabbi Perry Berkowitz: Have the Jews Left the Synagogue?] Reference
He spoke with appreciation of a recent gift of a rabbinic library of several thousand volumes of large value. From Wordnik.com. [The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915] Reference
To facilitate kabalistic interpretations, the text of Scripture was tampered with and rabbinic works doctored. From Wordnik.com. [David Shasha: Two Models of Jewish Tradition: Vertical-Hierarchical and Horizontal Pluralist] Reference
Such inquiries, standard in rabbinic legal tradition, are to be put aside in deference to the "Rabbis of France.". From Wordnik.com. [David Shasha: Two Models of Jewish Tradition: Vertical-Hierarchical and Horizontal Pluralist] Reference
These Psalms of Solomon, as they are called, are pharisaic in point of view, yet they are not rabbinic in their ideas. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Jesus of Nazareth] Reference
Currently, between 40 and 68 percent of the rabbinic students at the major non-Orthodox rabbinical seminaries are women. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi Laura Geller: What the Success of Women Rabbis Means for Judaism] Reference
His lack of "learning" (John vii. 15) was simply his innocence of rabbinic training; he had no diploma from their schools. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Jesus of Nazareth] Reference
In proportion as the rabbinic formalism held control of the hearts of the people, the Messianic hope lost its warmth and vigor. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Jesus of Nazareth] Reference
Centuries of apologetics among rabbinic scholars ensued, teasing out the propriety of Hillel's apparent subversion of Torah law. From Wordnik.com. [Ask the Rabbi: What the Sages of Old Would Have Said About the Bailout] Reference
According to the Talmud and post-Talmudic rabbinic law, "conversion (must be) performed by authorized rabbis in a proper manner.". From Wordnik.com. [Defending Zionism - Defending the Indefensible] Reference
Continuing in yeshiva would only have saddled me with rabbinic ordination, after which even shlepper would have been out of reach. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Wex: How Do You Make a Writer Kvetch?] Reference
And then several pages later: “There were rabbinic edicts to contend with as well as imams and herbalists and local politicians.”. From Wordnik.com. [Bay Ridge's Anatomy] Reference
The antiquity of the rabbinic record is so uncertain, however, that it is only useful as showing what possibly may have been the case. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Jesus of Nazareth] Reference
As for the scribal rabbinic elite, so also for the ordinary people, resistance under Herod's iron-fisted rule was futile and suicidal. From Wordnik.com. [Jews and Christians in a Roman World] Reference
One powerful expression of this conviction is the rabbinic teaching that teshuvah was actually created before the world came into being. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi Or Rose: No More Hiding from God -- Or Ourselves] Reference
And therefore, once he has the presumption of confidentiality, there are rabbinic decrees against reading anybody's private communications. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 28, 2008] Reference
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