Rabbi Trugman states that in the last five centuries the concept of reincarnation, which until then had been a much hidden tradition within Judaism, was given open exposure.

In To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks states that social justice has a central place in Judaism.

Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz writes that " If the Bible is the cornerstone of Judaism, then the Talmud is the central pillar ... No other work has had a comparable influence on the theory and practice of Jewish life, shaping influence on the theory and practice of Jewish life " and states:

A classical rabbinic work, Avoth de-Rabbi Natan, states: " One time, when Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai was walking in Jerusalem with Rabbi Yehosua, they arrived at where the Temple in Jerusalem now stood in ruins.

One account, by Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela dating from 1163 CE, states that after passing through an iron door, and descending, the caves would be encountered.

Rabbi Obadiah of Bertinoro writing in 1488, states " the Westen Wall, part of which is still standing, is made of great, thick stones, larger than any I have seen in buildings of antiquity in Rome or in other lands.

Chayey Moharan # 266 states Rabbi Nachman said " All the benefits Messiah can do for Israel, I can do ; the only difference is Messiah will decree and it will happen, but I -- ( and he stopped and did not say more ) version: I cannot finish yet "

As the Mishna in Tractate Peah ( 1: 1 ) states: " The study of Torah is equal to all of the mitzvos ", the Gaon encouraged his chief pupil, Rabbi Chaim Volozhin, to found a yeshiva ( college ) in which rabbinic literature should be taught.

Therefore, Rabbi Bigman states, " There is no prohibition whatsoever of innocent singing ; rather, only singing intended for sexual stimulation, or flirtatious singing, is forbidden.

The organisation also states the following have been released as a result of their campaigning: Mallam Turi, Zeenah Ibrahim from Nigeria ; Sheikh Al-Jamri, Bahrain ; Huda Kaya, Bekir Yildiz, Recep Tayyep Erdogan, Nurilhak Saatcioglu, Nurcihan Saatioglu, Turkey ; Sheikh Ahmed Yassine, Abdul Aziz Rantissi, Rabbi Biton, Sheikh Abdulkareem Obeid, Mustafa Dirani from Israeli detention ; Mohammed Mahdi Akef, Egypt ; Dr. Muhammad Osman Elamin, Sudan ; Cehl Meeah, Mauritius ; Abbasi Madani and Ali Behadj, Algeria.

However, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn states that the status of ger toshav will continue to exist, even in the Messianic era.

The film is mentioned when Rabbi Krustofski states, " Oh, if you were a musician or a jazz singer, this I could forgive!

( Above it states that he left commerce and became a Rabbi in 1830.

While the date of the first settlement of Jews in the regions the Romans called Germania Superior, Germania Inferior, and Germania Magna is not known, the first authentic document relating to a large and well-organized Jewish community in these regions dates from 321 and refers to Cologne on the Rhine .— have been renovated and opened, and Berlin's annual week of Jewish culture and the Jewish Cultural Festival in Berlin, held for the 21st time, featuring concerts, exhibitions, public readings and discussions can only partially explain why Rabbi Yitzhak Ehrenberg of the orthodox Jewish community in Berlin states: " Orthodox Jewish life is alive in Berlin again.

The Midrash Rabbah states that Rabbi Bar Kappera was of the opinion that mourning should peak on the third day.

In Aruch HaShulchan, Rabbi Epstein cites the source of each law as found in the Talmud and Maimonides, and states the halakhic decision as found in the Shulchan Aruch with the glosses of Rema.

The Talmud states that during the time of Rabbi Akiva, 24, 000 of his students died from a divinely sent plague during the counting of the Omer.

Rabbi David Feldman states that the Talmud discusses the time of ensoulment, but considers the question unanswerable and irrelevant to the abortion question.

In the Midrash on Psalms 118 it states that Bruriah taught her husband, Rabbi Meir, to pray for the repentance of the wicked, rather than for their destruction.

Whatever the origins of this phrase, it is now very popular among a subgroup group of Breslover Hasidim who follow Rabbi Odesser, who are colloquially known as the Na Nachs.

`` But, Rabbi Melzi, you don't object to others creating works of art ''??

The Mishnah has many sayings about the World to Come, for example, " Rabbi Yaakov said: This world is like a lobby before the World to Come ; prepare yourself in the lobby so that you may enter the banquet hall.

After telling the audience " I shall now read to you the scroll of the Establishment of the State, which has passed its first reading by the National Council ", Ben-Gurion proceeded to read out the declaration, taking 16 minutes, ending with the words " Let us accept the Foundation Scroll of the Jewish State by rising " and calling on Rabbi Fishman to recite the Shehecheyanu blessing.

' What you are is a Reform Rabbi.

: Rabbi Meir: What tribe are you from?

" At that instant a heavenly voice emerged and said, " Fortunate are you Rabbi Shimon!

The Talmud records Rabbi Eleazar b. Simeon condemning the Samaritan scribes: " You have falsified your Pentateuch ... and you have not profited aught by it.

: Are you eating by Rabbi Fischer?

Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson issued a call to every Jew: " Even if you are not fully committed to a Torah life, do something.

A heavenly voice went out and announced: " Blessed are you, Rabbi Akiva, that your life expired with " Echad ".

" Rabbi Akiva asked him: " Had you known that her husband would become a great man, would you have vowed?

Rabbi Weissmandl pointed out that if you combine the three small letters together they form the word, which in the accepted Hebrew notation for year numbers ( using Gematria ) corresponds to the Jewish year 707 Anno Mundi, which is the Jewish year that the 10 Nazi leaders were executed ( October 16, 1946 corresponds to Tishrei 21, 5707, the day known as Hoshanna Rabba, the day of severe judgments for the nations of the world, according to the Jewish calendar ).

" ending with Judas who asks " Rabbi ... can you mean me ?".

Yitzhak Sarfati, born in Germany, became the Chief Rabbi of Edirne and wrote a letter inviting European Jews to settle in the Ottoman Empire, in which he asked :: " Is it not better for you to live under Muslims than under Christians ?".

Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz the Nasi of the Sanhedrin said < cite > I'd be happy if in another few years these chairs are filled by scholars who are greater than us and we can say: ` I kept the chairs warm for you.

: The second rich youth said to him, “ Rabbi, what good thing can I do and live ?” Jesus replied, “ Fulfill the law and the prophets .” “ I have ,” was the response Jesus said, “ Go, sell all that you have and distribute to the poor ; and come, follow me .” The youth began to fidget, for it did not please him.

Another famous saying: " It is not incumbent upon you to complete the work, but neither are you at liberty to desist from it " ( Avot 2: 21 ) attributed to Rabbi Tarfon.

* This warning had to be delivered within seconds of the performance of the sin ( in the time it took to say, " Peace unto you, my Rabbi and my Master ");

According to Rabbi Ben-Zion Alfes, the Maggid of Vilna, Potocki refused his mother, saying, " I love you dearly, but I love the truth even more ".

Among these new Ashkenazi immigrants was Rabbi Yitzhak Sarfati, a German-born Jew of French descent ( Hebrew: צרפתי – Sarfati, meaning: " French "), who became the Chief Rabbi of Edirne and wrote a letter inviting the European Jewry to settle in the Ottoman Empire, in which he stated that: " Turkey is a land wherein nothing is lacking " and asking: " Is it not better for you to live under Muslims than under Christians?

" Other notable writers who have explored regional and ethnic communities in their detective novels are Harry Kemelman, whose Rabbi Small series were set the Conservative Jewish community of Massachusetts ; Walter Mosley, whose Easy Rawlins books are set in the African American community of 1950s Los Angeles ; and Sara Paretsky, whose V. I. Warshawski books have explored the various subcultures of Chicago.

A Polish Kabbalist, writing in about 1630 – 1650, reported the creation of a golem by Rabbi Eliyahu thus: " And I have heard, in a certain and explicit way, from several respectable persons that one man close to our time, whose name is R. Eliyahu, the master of the name, who made a creature out of matter Golem and form tzurah and it performed hard work for him, for a long period, and the name of emet was hanging upon his neck, until he finally removed it for a certain reason, the name from his neck and it turned to dust.

Rabbi Louis Finkelstein, scholar of the JTSA, wrote: " There are those who would think that we have but two alternatives, to reject or to accept the law, but in either case to treat it as a dead letter.

Rabbi Judah said: " Much have I learned from my teachers, more from my colleagues, but most from my students.

Rabbi Bradley Artson, Dean of the Rabbinic School at American Jewish University claims to have studied every reference he could find to homosexual activity mentioned in ancient Greek and Latin writers.

Reuvein Margolies suggests that as the Mishnah was redacted after the Bar Kochba revolt, Rabbi Judah could not have included discussion of Hanukkah which commemorates the Jewish revolt against the Syrian-Greeks ( the Romans would not have tolerated this overt nationalism ).

Similarly, there were then several decrees in place aimed at suppressing outward signs of national identity, including decrees against wearing tefillin and tzitzit ; as Conversion to Judaism was against Roman law, Rabbi Judah would not have discussed this.

Rabbi is credited with publishing the Mishnah, though there have been a few edits since his time ( for example, those passages that cite him or his grandson, Rabbi Yehuda Nesi ' ah ; in addition, the Mishnah at the end of Tractate Sotah refers to the period after Rabbi's death, which could not have been written by Rabbi himself ).

Originally she was believed to be either Rabbi Meir's wife mentioned above, or Rabbi Chaninyah's daughter mentioned above, however over the past 3-4 centuries Rabbinic scholars have realized that these generations do not correspond to Beruryah's law decisions, and life, therefore she today is just ' Beruryah ' and of heretofore unknown lineage.

In one case she paskinned din on " klaustra " a rare Greek word referring to an object, used in the Talmud, unfortunately Rabbi Yehudah Hanassi did not believe women could be credited with paskining din, as it says ' do not speak too much to women ' ( Tannah Rabbi Jesse the Galilean ), and therefore credited the law to Rabbi Joshua who may have been her father.

* Ashkenazic Orthodox Jews have traditionally based most of their practices on the Rema, the gloss on the Shulchan Aruch by Rabbi Moses Isserles, reflecting differences between Ashkenazi and Sephardi custom.

In a ruling of importance for Orthodox women's capacity for legal self-protection under Jewish law, Haredi Rabbi Benzion Wosner, writing on behalf of the Shevet Levi Beit Din ( Rabbinical court ) of Monsey, New York, identified sexual harassment cases as coming under a class of exceptions to the traditional exclusion, under which " even children or women " have not only a right but an obligation to testify, and can be relied upon by a rabbinical court as valid witnesses:

Rashi's students, Rabbi Shemaya and Rabbi Yosef, edited the final commentary on the Torah ; some of their own notes and additions also made their way into the version we have today.

Voluminous supercommentaries have been published on Rashi's commentaries on the Bible and Talmud, including Gur Aryeh by Rabbi Judah Loew ( the Maharal ), Sefer ha-Mizrachi by Rabbi Elijah Mizrachi ( the Re ' em ), and Yeri ' ot Shlomo by Rabbi Solomon Luria ( the Maharshal ).