Although most congregations hire one or more Rabbis, the use of a professional hazzan is generally declining in American congregations, and the use of professionals for other offices is rarer still.

Rabbis expounded on and debated the Tanakh ( Hebrew: ת ַּ נ ַ" ך ְ‎), the Hebrew Bible, without the benefit of written works ( other than the Biblical books themselves ), though some may have made private notes (), for example of court decisions.

While this approach, requiring absolute purity, was rejected by other ancient Rabbis, for example ' he who is not for the name of God, will become for the name of God ', and a middle approach was adopted by Jews as standard.

Rabbis whose ordination is from other seminaries and Yeshivas may also admitted to the RA.

Rabbis expounded and debated the law ( the written law expressed in the Hebrew Bible ) and discussed the Tanakh without the benefit of written works ( other than the Biblical books themselves ), though some may have made private notes (), for example of court decisions.

Resolving contradictions, perceived or actual, between different statements in the Mishnah, or between the Mishnah and other traditions ; e. g., by stating that: two conflicting sources are dealing with differing circumstances ; or that they represent the views of different Rabbis.

Ideally, a local Judenrat was to include Rabbis and other influential people of their local Jewish community.

In August 1967 after Israel's capture of the Mount, the Chief Rabbis of Israel, Isser Yehuda Unterman and Yitzhak Nissim, together with other leading rabbis, asserted that " For generations we have warned against and refrained from entering any part of the Temple Mount.

Later texts like the Mishnah and the Talmud record a host of rulings by Rabbis, some of whom are believed to be from among the Pharisees, concerning sacrifices and other ritual practices in the Temple, torts, criminal law, and governance.

" In fact, the Rabbis took over more and more power from the Reish Galuta until eventually R ' Ashi assumed the title Rabbana, heretofore assumed by the exilarch, and appeared together with two other Rabbis as an official delegation " at the gate of King Yazdegard's court.

* Ḥoq le-Yisrael, a programme founded by Rabbis Hayyim ben Joseph Vital and Chaim Joseph David Azulai in which, every week, one studies extracts from the Mishnah, the Zohar and other works in addition to the portion for that week: the relevant passages are often printed in book form in a multivolume set.

Additionally, whereas the Modern Orthodox position is ( generally ) presented as " unquestioned allegiance to the primacy of Torah, and that the apprehension of all other intellectual disciplines must be rooted and viewed through the prism of Torah ", Haredi groups have sometimes compared Modern Orthodoxy with early Reform Judaism in Germany: Modern Orthodox Rabbis have been criticised for attempting to modify Jewish law, in adapting Judaism to the needs of the modern world.

Even so, klezmorim — along with other entertainers — were typically looked down on by Rabbis because of their secular traveling lifestyle.

Rabbis sometimes had other important administrative powers, together with the community elders.

On the other hand, against the novel and minority view of Rabbis Bigman and Shammah, Rabbi Cherney notes that, e find that Shmuel's claim that it various violations of the normative laws of tzniut is permitted " for the sake of Heaven, הכל לשם שמים ," the act is normatively forbidden, but permitted because it gives no sexual pleasure in the given time and place is quoted by later authorities.

For the rulings of other Rabbis, see kol isha.

As a result of objections by the Anti-Defamation League of B ' nai B ' rith and the New York Board of Rabbis, the film was not released in the United States until 1951, with seven minutes of profile shots and other parts of Guinness's performance cut.

Karaites, however, argue that since other passages in the Bible with similar language are read metaphorically, the verses from which the Rabbis derive the law of teffilin should also be read metaphorically.

* laws on ' avodah zarah ' ( forbidden forms of worship / idolatry ) which they hold prohibits any use of intermediaries or mediators between oneself and the One Creator, prohibits praying or making requests to unseen forces such as past Rabbis or Sefirot, or supplicating to any unseen being other than the One Absolute Being-Y / H / W / H, and not doing any specific acts of religious devotion to any thing other than He ;

To grant it authority, it bears letters of endorsement from Rabbi Zalman Nechemia Goldberg of the Supreme Rabbinical Court of Israel, both the Chief Rabbis of Israel, and letters of blessing and approbation from various other notable rabbis around the world.

Yet, according to other scholars as well as Yemenite Rabbis such as Rabbi Yosef Qafih, and Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook Temani Hebrew was not influenced by Yemenite Arabic, as this type of Arabic was also spoken by Yemenite Jews and is distinct from the liturgical Hebrew and the conversational Hebrew of the communities.

They are dark-skinned ... and one could not tell whether they keep the teaching of the Karaites, or of the Rabbis, for some of their practices resemble the Karaite teaching ... but in other things they appear to follow the instruction of the Rabbis ; and they say they are related to the tribe of Dan.

Most Masorti Rabbis are trained at Leo Baeck College, an inter-denominational seminary that ordains non-Orthodox British Rabbis.

The following year ( 1896 ) he participated in the Vilna Conference, where Rabbis and community leaders discussed issues such as: genuine Jewish education ; permission for Jewish children not to attend public school on Shabbat ; the creation of a united Jewish organization for the purpose of strengthening Judaism.

According to j. the Jewish news weekly, " mainstream rabbinical leaders of the Reform, Conservative and Orthodox movements " have questioned private ordinations such as Lerner's, arguing that non-seminary ordinations risk producing poorly educated or fraudulent Rabbis.

Other leaders, teachers and authors associated with Jewish Renewal include Rabbis Arthur Waskow, Michael Lerner, Rachel Barenblat, Tirzah Firestone, Phyllis Berman, Shefa Gold, David Ingber, and Marcia Prager.

In the Talmud, the Zealots are the non-religious ( not following the religious leaders ), and are also called the Biryonim ( בריונים ) meaning " boorish ", " wild ", or " ruffians ", and are condemned for their aggression, their unwillingness to compromise to save the survivors of besieged Jerusalem, and their blind militarism against the Rabbis ' opinion to seek treaties for peace.

Various community leaders and rabbis were influenced by him ; these include Rabbis Meir Fund, Naftali Citron, Nosson Schafer, Avraham Arieh Trugman, Avi Weiss and others.

Rabbis who believed in the idea of reincarnation include, from Medieval times: the mystical leaders Nahmanides ( the Ramban ) and Rabbenu Bahya ben Asher ; from the 16th-century: Levi ibn Habib ( the Ralbah ), and from the mystical school of Safed Shelomoh Alkabez, Isaac Luria ( the Ari ) and his exponent Hayyim Vital ; and from the 18th-century: the founder of Hasidism Yisrael Baal Shem Tov, later Hasidic Masters, and the Lithuanian Jewish Orthodox leader and Kabbalist the Vilna Gaon.

Famous descendants of Horowitz included the prominent Billiczer Rabbinical family of Szerencs, Hungary and the Dym family of Rabbis and communal leaders in Galicia.

Rabbis, evangelical and Catholic leaders were also present.

His learning partners included Rabbis Avigdor Miller, Moshe Bick, Mordechai Gifter, and Nosson Meir Wachtfogel, future leaders of American Torah Jewry.

Breslover leaders of the following generation, such as Rabbis Shmuel Horowitz and Yitzchok Gelbach, attributed their initial interest in Breslov teachings to their first exposure to Alter Tepliker's Hishtafchut HaNefesh.

In Canada, the reconstructionist Rabbis does officiate at same-sex wedding.

Rabbis ordained by Jewish Theological Seminary of America, the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the American Jewish University ( California ), The Seminario Rabínico Latinoamericano ( Buenos Aires, Argentina ) and The Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies ( Jerusalem, Israel ) automatically become members of the RA upon their ordination.

It immediately proceeded to admit Rabbis Jan Caryl Kaufman and Beverly Magidson, who had been ordained at Hebrew Union College.

In 1983, the Central Conference of American Rabbis passed a resolution waiving the need for formal conversion for anyone with at least one Jewish parent who has made affirmative acts of Jewish identity.

Samuel is also treated by the Classical Rabbis as a much more sympathetic character than he appears at face value in the Bible ; his annual circuit is explained as being due to his wish to spare people the task of having to journey to him ; Samuel is said to have been very rich, taking his entire household with him on the circuit so that he didn't need to impose himself on anyone's hospitality ; when Saul fell out of God's favour, Samuel is described as having grieved copiously and having prematurely aged.

As the Rabbis were required to face a new reality — mainly Judaism without a Temple ( to serve as the center of teaching and study ) and Judea without at least partial autonomy — there was a flurry of legal discourse and the old system of oral scholarship could not be maintained.

Before the war, the population was 20, 000, of which about half were Jewish ; Meyer Meyerovitz and Meyer Abovitz were the Rabbis there at that time.

In 2002, there was a big controversy at this congregation, for many members of the community wanted to allow women to be called up to the Torah, which, while supported by a then-recent legal argument by Rabbi Mendel Shapiro, is opposed by many Rabbis for halakhic and sociological reasons.

Jokes have been made about the shifting of gender roles ( in the more traditional Orthodox movement, women marry at a young age and have many children, while the more liberal Conservative and Reform movements make gender roles more egalitarian, even ordaining women as Rabbis ).

Yosef found that religious observance among both the Jewish community at large, and its leadership, including the local Rabbis, was lax.

' The book won much praise and received the approval of, among others, the two Chief Rabbis of Israel at that time, Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel and Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog.

According to Yosef, the preoccupation with Pilpul at the expense of Bkiut causes lack of knowledge among Ashkenazi poskim, which in turn leads to unnecessary chumra in making halakhic rulings, since the Posek is unaware of lenient Psikot and approaches to Halakha used by previous Rabbis upon which the Posek could rely to rule leniently.

The rulings of the Ben Ish Chai were at the heart of the disagreement between him and the Chief Rabbis Yitzhak Nissim and Mordechai Eliyahu.

His critique of Modern Orthodox Judaism has been commented on by many, including Hillel Halkin, columnist for the New York Sun ; Andrew Silow-Carroll, editor of the New Jersey Jewish News ; Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, Executive Vice President of the Orthodox Union ; Rabbi Shalom Carmy, tenured professor of Jewish philosophy at Yeshiva University ; Rabbi Norman Lamm, chancellor of Yeshiva University ;, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach ; Gary Rosenblatt, editor of Jewish Week, the editorial board of the Jewish Press ; Rabbis Ozer Glickman and Aharon Kahn, roshei yeshiva at Yeshiva University ; Ami Eden, Executive Editor of The Forward ; Rabbi David M. Feldman, author of Where There's Life, There's Life ; and Jonathan Rosenblum, columnist for the Jerusalem Post.

It begins with an order of transmission of the Oral Tradition ; Moses receives the Torah at Mount Sinai and then transmits it through various generations ( including Joshua, the Elders, and the Neviim, but notably not the Kohanim ), whence it finally arrives at the Great Assembly, i. e., the Rabbis ( Avot 1: 1 ).

in Religion from Columbia University ; professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University ) and Dr. Daniel Boyarin, a professor of Talmud at the University of California, Berkeley, argue that it was through the Yeshu narratives that Rabbis confronted this blurry boundary.

In the United Kingdom he completed his higher education, including a period at the Etz Chaim Yeshiva in London, studying under and receiving semicha from the renowned Rabbis Elya Lopian, Leib Gurwicz and Nachman Shlomo Greenspan.