The Kahal, or Jewish communal government, to a certain degree invested with judicial and administrative competence, could not do without the guiding hand of the rabbis as interpreters of the law.
To this commanding position the rabbis of Palestine especially were inclined to lay claim.
Now and again its rabbis played the part of Patriarchs of the synagogue.
Jewish printing establishments in Cracow and Lublin were assiduous in turning out a mass of writings, which spread the fame of the Polish rabbis to the remotest communities.
Secret devotion to the Sabbatian doctrines, which had made their home in Poland, sometimes led to such extremes in dogma and ethics that the rabbis could not contain themselves.
The Rabbis say, that when persecution forbade the wearing of the phylacteries with safety, a red thread might be substituted for this token of the covenant with the Lord.
The Rabbis even held that God himself, as the other party in this blood-covenant, wore the phylacteries, as its token and memorial.
The Rabbis mention a variety of rules observed by the priest who caught up the blood--all designed to make the best provision for its proper sprinkling.
With shuffling step and pious mien the rabbis and members go to the synagogue, and with much wailing and lamentation praise and bless Jehovah.
Thus religion ceases to be an art which the Rabbis and Pharisees understand better than the unlearned people which know nothing of the law.
The rule of religion was essentially the rule of the law, and consequently the Rabbis at last served themselves heirs to the hierarchs.
He had been taught by the Rabbis that men were saved by keeping the law and doing outward works of righteousness.
He found that His Father's house was greater than the Temple, and under its starry roof, and wandering over its wide courts paved with grass and flowers, He learned more than the Rabbis could teach Him.
And it is the duty of our rabbis in the present just as it was in the past to lead us and strengthen us in our Judaism.
Therefore in those days the rabbis were naturally our only leaders, and their right to leadership depended solely upon their knowledge of the law.
Further points were raised as to polygamy, divorce, and mixed marriages; other questions related to the position of Rabbis and the Jewish laws about usury.
The study circles are conducted by several members who are also Seminary students and by several rabbis of the city.
A conference of rabbis to-day properly recognizes that Judaism consists no longer in the minute observances of the law; that the Jewish people are asking for the inner meaning of their religion, and not for dry formulas.
The Rabbis viewed everything from an ecclesiastical standpoint.
The notion of a covenant was defined more rigorously; the Law was practically exalted above God, so that the Rabbis even represent the Deity as studying the Law.
Probably he meant to be a Jerusalem Rabbi himself, still practising his trade, as the Rabbis usually did.
There are many congregations in the New York Ghetto which have no rabbis and many rabbis who have no congregations.
Some east side authorities maintain that the "orthodox Jew" of whom Rabbi Weiss spoke thus contemptuously, was one of the finest rabbis who ever came to New York, one of the most erudite of Talmudic scholars.
Another cause of irritation between the downtown and uptown rabbis is a difference of religion.
Against the rabbis he has no complaint to make; with them, he said, he had nothing to do.
One of the most learned, dignified and impressive rabbis of the east side is Rabbi Vidrovitch.
Just who the most genuine downtown rabbis are is, no doubt, a matter of dispute.
The genuine, pious rabbis in the New York Ghetto feel, consequently, that they have their grievances.
Like all true rabbis he does not preach, but merely sits in his home and expounds the "law.
He thinks that Schwartzberg is extreme and unfair, and that there are good and bad rabbis in New York.
Two rabbis who have no congregations are Rabbi Beinush and Rabbi, or rather, Cantor, Weiss.
This paper goes so far in its conservatism that, according to its enemies, it condemns all rabbis who mention the name of Christ in their sermons, and holds to a strict interpretation of Talmudic law in regard to habits of life.
For I appear in the cloud upon the ark-cover" is construed by the Rabbis to mean the cloud of incense.
Our rabbisparaphrase this by the words, "that I may cause My Shekinah to dwell among them.
The rabbis call attention to the fact that the sacrifice of the Paschal lamb in Egypt by the Israelites was a very bold expression of their faith, inasmuch as the sheep was among the sacred animals of Egypt.
The Rabbis emphasize that, in bidding him to leave his land, God tells him merely to go "to the land that I will show unto thee", without indicating what land was meant.
The incident of the Israelites being victorious, so long as Moses' hands were raised, is to be explained as the rabbis explain it in the Mishnah (Rosh ha-Shanah III.
The rabbis say that the reason for God's mentioning the sin of Nadab and Abihu was to keep us from inferring that their death was a punishment for other and more grievous sins.
Nay, he had called the whole story of Creation a myth; the whole story as there given: so at least said the rabbis of Oxford, and among them outspoke more loudly than any others the outraged and very learnedrabbis of Oriel.
The words myth and mythical were used half a dozen times, and the rabbis declared that they were applied to the statements of Scripture.
Both old and young spend that day in visits to the graves of our greatRabbis and in picnics on the Mount of Olives or in the cool shade of the many caves in the neighbourhood.
Our ancient Rabbis realized this, and said that those who had not the leisure or the inclination to devote much time to the study of the Torah should make it their duty to give of their means towards the up-keep of those who did.
Don't you know that our Rabbis say that a bad thought is just as evil as a bad deed; for, if we check a bad thought or wish, it helps us not to put the bad thoughts or wish into action.
Almost every page of the Old Testament contains veiled meanings and allegories, as is frankly confessed by the rabbis themselves.
The old Rabbis hit upon great truths now and then, and one of them said, 'Make God's will thy will, that He may make thy will His will.
He could not save Himself, just because He would save these scoffing Rabbis and all the world.
Of course, orthodox rabbis say that Maimonides was a heretic.
One of the rabbis took Angelo's body, and promised to bury him at once.
Their rabbis are all workers of miracles, and Bescht is adored by them more than Moses and the Biblical saints.
The main attack of all these early works was directed against the fanaticism of the Khassidic sect, against the hypocrisy of its miracle-working Rabbis in whose interest it lay to oppose the light at all cost.
Pretty I am, pretty, and pretty is my name; they talk of great rabbis as matches for me.
Most of the medieval legends cluster around the Rabbis of Central Europe, who have in one way or another become famous.
In Wilna they will still tell the curious stranger many reminiscences of those glorious days when theirRabbis could arrest the workings of natural laws, and when their sentence was binding on ghosts as well as men.
Secretaries of State, Ambassadors, Congressmen, distinguished rabbis and churchmen, and other people of eminence attained His presence, among whom were such figures as Dr.
The prevailing opinion of the Rabbis and the people alike, in Christ's day, was, that the Messiah would be simply a great prince, who should found a kingdom of matchless splendor.
Much of the Old Testament which Christian divines, in their ignorance of Jewish lore, have insisted on receiving and interpreting literally, the informed Rabbis never dreamed of regarding as anything but allegorical.
Y: Why do not the rabbis and the doctors of Law forbid them from their (habit of) uttering sinful words and eating things forbidden?
P: They have taken as lords beside Allah their rabbis and their monks and the Messiah son of Mary, when they were bidden to worship only One Allah.
Jewish) rabbis and the (Christian) monks devour the wealth of mankind wantonly and debar (men) from the way of Allah.
P: Why do not the rabbis and the priests forbid their evil-speaking and their devouring of illicit gain?
Many if not all of the professed rabbis had travelled outside Palestine: some were even members of the dispersion, like Hillel the Babylonian, who with Shammai forms the second of the pairs.
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.
Towards the end of Herod's life tworabbis 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.
It was now necessary to go farther, and therabbis proclaimed a principle which was as influential with the synagogue as "Give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's" became with the Church.
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.
If they died, death was inevitable, the rabbis said, and no better death would they ever find.
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.
Though the majority of the rabbis looked for no such deliverer and refused to admit his claims, Barcochebas (q.
The legend has been amply embroidered by the Rabbis who make the Sodomites do everything à l'envers: e.
FN#395] Some commentators understand "the tabernacles sacred to the reproductive powers of women;" and the Rabbis declare that the emblem was the figure of a setting hen.
There, in the company of sympathetic rabbis and in the excitement of effort, he would dispel from his mind these fancies bred of solitude.
The college for the education of Jewish rabbis was in Jerusalem, and thither Paul was sent about the age of thirteen.
The Rabbis doubtless meant by this legend that the power of Rome was created to be a scourge for Israel's backslidings.
Seth he describes as the model of the virtuous, and of him the Rabbis likewise say, "From Seth dates the stock of all generations of the virtuous.
The meaning is not, as some fools think, that the Rabbis forbid the use of the reason entirely to reach what is in its power.
When theRabbis tell us that cruelty to animals is forbidden in the Torah, the meaning is that we must not be cruel to animals for our own good, in order not to develop habits of cruelty.
Rabbis in the statement that "God never does anything without first looking at the celestial 'familia.
And it is this the Bible and the Rabbishad in mind in such passages as, "Hast thou found honey?
The Rabbisoften speak of the great reward destined for school children.
And he quotes the Rabbis of the Talmud, according to whom the reward in the future world is not the same for the two types of men.
Accordingly he tells us that following the instructions of the Rabbis he must not be expected to give more than bare allusions.
Hillel then proceeds to show that the words of the Rabbis which seem to speak for corporeal retribution are not to be taken literally.
The Rabbis also speak of definite places of reward and punishment, which cannot apply to the acquired intellect, since it is a "separate" substance and can have no place.
Tradition is equally explicit in the statement of the Rabbis (Berakot 33b), "Everything is in the hands of God except the fear of God.
This opinion of Albo is clearly intended as a defence of Judaism against Christianity's claim that Jesus performed miracles, a claim which the Rabbis of the middle ages were inclined to recognize.
As a poor Babylonian youth, he went over to Jerusalem to study under the great rabbis of the church.
Many a time after tiresome disputes and wranglings with insolent priests and rabbis in the city, who were only trying to entrap Him, He goes to this quiet little home among the olive groves for rest.
To this end, the commander cautioned his troops to act towards the Moslems as towards "Jews and Italians," and to respect their muftis and imams as much as "rabbis and bishops.
In consideration of their paying full taxes and performing military service, they received official protection and their rabbisgovernmental support.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rabbis" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
