The Rabbis conflated ordinary niddah with this extended menstrual period, known in the Torah as zavah, and mandated that a woman may not have sexual intercourse with her husband from the time she begins her menstrual flow until seven days after it ends.

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.

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.

Although this story may not present a historically accurate account of Jesus ' life, it does use a fiction about Jesus to communicate an important truth about the Rabbis ( see Jeffrey Rubenstein, Rabbinic Stories ).

Although this story may not present a historically accurate account of Jesus ' life, it does use a fiction about Jesus to communicate an important truth about the Rabbis.

And in any case it is known that the Rabbis who preceded me were subordinate to their Ashkenazi counterparts, the Gaon Rabbi Benzion Uziel Z " l was subordinate to the Gaon Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak Kook ZT " L ... and the Gaon Rabbi Yaakov Moshe Toledano Z " l in his capacity as Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv-Jaffa could not even raise his head towards his colleague, may he be chosen for a good life, the Gaon Rabbi Isser Yehuda Unterman Shlit " a and to disagree with him on Halakha ...

The Messiah Truth organization also offers an interactive forum where Jews may ask questions about Judaism or missionary arguments and be answered by Jewish experts including Rabbis, Yeshiva instructors, and Hebrew professors.

According to Fuchs, Halichos Bas Yisrael, only German Rabbis have traditionally permitted returning a handshake ; and a man who is stringent about shaking hands may be lenient and shake hands with his sister ( and vice versa ), since we find other leniencies concerning brother and sister.

He may have received the hattarat hora ' ah from the Prague bet din, composed of Rabbis Rapoport, Samuel Freund, and E. L. Teweles, or from Rabbi Falk Kohn.

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.

There are no female Rabbis among the British Masorti, for example, and some Masorti congegations maintain non-egalitarian practices with regard to gender, such as the mechitza and the prohibition of women reading from the Torah, while nearly all American congregations are fully egalitarian and the American Rabbinical schools ordain women as Rabbis.

Further he suggested that the Rabbis have long regarded the punishment declared by the Torah as immoral, and came to the conclusion that no court should agree to hear testimony on " mamzerut ".

Thus, as the Pharisees argued that all Israel should act as priests, the Rabbis argued that all Israel should act as rabbis: " The rabbis furthermore want to transform the entire Jewish community into an academy where the whole Torah is studied and kept .... redemption depends on the " rabbinization " of all Israel, that is, upon the attainment of all Jewry of a full and complete embodiment of revelation or Torah, thus achieving a perfect replica of heaven.

Some women's prayer groups which practice under the halakhic guidance of Modern Orthodox Rabbis, and which conduct Torah readings for women only, have adapted a custom of calling a bat-kohen for the first aliyah and a bat levi for the second.

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.

His students included Rabbis: Yonasan David ( his son-in-law ) and Aharon Schechter, his successors as Rosh Yeshivas of Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin ; Hirsch Diskind, son-in-law of Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky and long-time Dean of Bais Yaakov School for Girls in Baltimore, Aharon Lichtenstein, son-in-law of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion in Israel ; Pinchas Stolper of the Orthodox Union and founder of NCSY who followed Hutner's guidelines in setting up this youth outreach movement ; Avrohom Davis, founder of the Metzudah religious books series ; Shlomo Freifeld who set up one of the first full-time yeshivas for baal teshuva students in the world ; Joshua Fishman, leader and executive Vice President of Torah Umesorah the National Society for Hebrew Day Schools ; Avrohom Kleinkaufman, a lecturer in Yeshiva of Far Rockaway and translator of the Genesis and Exodus volumes of the Metzuda Bible Commentary of Rabbi Solomon and the Kol Sasson Sephardic Siddurim and Machzorim ; Yaakov Perlow, the Novominsker Rebbe of Boro Park ; Meir Bilitzky, senior rabbi of Young Israel of New Hyde Park ; Noah Weinberg founder and head of Aish Hatorah and his brother Yaakov Weinberg of Ner Israel Yeshiva in Baltimore ; Yosef Katzenstein of Copenhagen, author of Kol Chayil and Lema ' an Achai ; Feivel Cohen of Brooklyn, author of " Badei HaShulchan " and world renowned posek, Dovid Cohen, rabbi of Congregation Gvul Yaabetz and an author of a number of books on Jewish theology, and Ahron Kaufman Rosh HaYeshiva of Yeshiva Gedola of Waterbury, son in law to Feivel Cohen.

The Rabbis came to assume that the Law of the Torah comprised 613 commandments.

This is done to accommodate the variant opinions of the medieval Rabbis Rashi and Rabbeinu Tam as to whether it should be placed horizontally or vertically, and also to imply that God and the Torah ( which the mezuzah symbolizes ) are entering the room.

These new Rabbis were: Rabbi Meir, Rabbi Shimon, Rabbi Yehudah ( ben Ila ’ i ), Rabbi Yosi and Rabbi Elazar ben Shamua – an entire generation of Torah leadership.

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.

An alternative explanation, offered by Rabbis Reuven Margolies and Samson Raphael Hirsch, is that the haftarah reading was instituted to fight the influence of those sects in Judaism that viewed the Hebrew Bible as consisting only of the Torah.

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 ).

A ger toshav is a Gentile who accepts the authority of the Torah and the Rabbis upon himself, but specifically as applied to Gentiles.

Rabbis of the Talmudic era conceived of the Oral Torah in two distinct ways.

" Second, the Rabbis also conceived of the Oral Torah as an interpretive tradition, and not merely as memorized traditions.

To the Rabbis in late antiquity, the Oral Torah is as authoritative as the written law itself ( contrast with Karaism below ).

The authority for that position has been the insistence by the Rabbis that the oral law was transmitted to Moses at Mount Sinai at the same time as the Written Law — the Torah — and that the oral law has been transmitted from generation to generation since.

In March 2012, the Annual Convention of the Central Conference of American Rabbis celebrated the 40th anniversary of women's ordination by calling Priesand to the Torah at the Monday morning prayer service ; through May 2012, the Union for Reform Judaism was running a blog to celebrate “ Forty Years of Women ” in honor of the anniversary ; and Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion honored her as special guest at the June 2, 2012 ordination ceremony at Plum Street Temple, during which 13 candidates were ordained – eight of them women.

All laws in Judaism can be temporarily broken, to save a life ( excluding 3: Idolatry, Murder and Sexual Immorality ) the exceptions, where you must be willing to die, are learned by the Talmudic Rabbis from various locations in the Torah ( see Daniel Chapter 1 for instance ).

Yitzchak Spector is one of the four Rabbis featured in the " Heroes of the Torah " collectible series, along with R. Elizer Goldberg, A. Hildenseimer, and S. Y.

These groups should not be confused with the similarly named Union of Orthodox Rabbis ( described below ).

Eli, who was viewed negatively by many Classical Rabbis, is said to have reacted to this logic of Samuel by arguing that it was technically true, but Samuel should be put to death for making legal statements while Eli ( his mentor ) was present.

Since the greater number of Rabbis lived in Babylon, the Babylonian Talmud has precedence should the two be in conflict.

The Rabbis, playing on the name Balaam, call him " Belo ' Am " ( without people ; that is, without a share with the people in the world to come ), or " Billa ' ' Am " ( one that ruined a people ); and this hostility against his memory finds its climax in the dictum that whenever one discovers a feature of wickedness or disgrace in his life, one should preach about it ( Sanh.

In the case of a minor brother, who could not legally sign the document, the institution of the " shetar bit ' hon halizah ," established by the Rabbis for such cases, had the father of the bridegroom promise to pay money to the bride if the minor son should later refuse the halizah ceremony ( ib.

The Rabbis decreed ( against Essene practice, and against advice given in the New Testament ) that one should not give away much, most or all of their possessions.

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.

Donin provides a secondary argument to this lack of preservation by stating that the Rabbis are continually changing the Bible through their Talmudic interpretation, and once again proving to the Christian audience that the Jews no longer perform their designated role, and hence should have their protection removed.

Rabbis in the Talmud, and those in the Middle Ages, saw fit to spell out that, aside from in questions of marriage, a mamzer should be treated as an ordinary Jew.

The Committee on Jewish Law and Standards ( CJLS ) of the Rabbinical Assembly of Conservative Judaism has declared that Conservative Rabbis should not inquire into or accept evidence of mamzer status under any circumstances, rendering the category inoperative.

Professor Sid Z. Leiman claims that the mentioned great Rabbis exonerated Eybeschutz from Sabbatianism only in order that the controversy should die down.