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The rabbis recognize a positive value to the yetzer hara: one tradition identifies it with the observation on the last day of creation that God's accomplishment was " very good " ( God's work on the preceding days was just described as " good ") and explain that without the yetzer ha ' ra there would be no marriage, children, commerce or other fruits of human labor ; the implication is that yetzer ha ' tov and yetzer ha ' ra are best understood not as moral categories of good and evil but as selfless versus selfish orientations, either of which used rightly can serve God's will.
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In matters of marriage and divorce, the State of Israel relies on its Chief Rabbinate to determine who is Jewish ; the Chief Rabbinate, following Orthodox practice, does not recognize the validity of conversions performed by Conservative rabbis and will require a Jew who was converted by a Conservative rabbi to undergo a second, Orthodox conversion to be regarded as a Jew for marriage and other purposes.
The divisions between the various religious branches within Judaism may have their most pronounced manifestation on whether rabbis from one movement recognize the legitimacy or the authority of rabbis in another.
Orthodox rabbis do not recognize conversions by non-Orthodox rabbis.
The rabbis even recognize a positive value to the yetzer ha-ra: without the yetzer ha-ra there would be no civilization or other fruits of human labor.
Upon his retirement, Einhorn was recognized by his fellow rabbis across denominations who held a farewell ceremony held at his apartment where he was presented with a resolution on behalf of the participants at the convention of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations that recognized Einhorn for his rabbinic service, noting the " ability and character which have marked his career, and the earnestness, honesty and zeal which have animated the heart of a man whom we proudly recognize as one of Israel's purest champions and noblest teachers.
rabbis and positive
There are 248 positive mitzvot and 365 negative mitzvot given in the Torah, supplemented by seven mitzvot legislated by the rabbis of antiquity ; see Rabbinical commandments.
Several great rabbis and sages have tried to find the Ra ` aya Meheimna, which originally is a vast book on all the 613 mitzvot, and arrange it according the order of positive commandments and negative commandments, and even print it as a book on its own.
Most coverage of the address was positive, with praise from Italian and Polish rabbis.
In a letter addressed to the French rabbis, he draws attention to the virtues of Maimonides and holds that Maimonides ' Mishne Torah – his Code of Jewish Law – not only shows no leniency in interpreting prohibitions within Jewish law, but may even be seen as more stringent, which in Nahmanides ' eyes was a positive factor.
Pope Benedict XVI has expressed very similar views to those of some of the Orthodox rabbis, saying in a 2004 book with Marcello Pera that inter-cultural dialogue could often be positive, but that theological dialogue was practically impossible and not always desirable.
A small number of religious Zionist rabbis of Modern Orthodox Judaism's Rabbinical Council of America voiced support for this idea ; some rabbis within Conservative Judaism entertained the idea as a potentially positive development.
Outside of the above-described authoritative texts common to Judaism, a small minority of rabbis hold a more positive view of Jesus, arguing that he himself did not abandon Judaism and / or that he benefited non-Jews.
Therefore his closest disciples included not only leading rabbis of the next generation but also laymen who would come to exert a tremendous positive influence on the physical and spiritual lot of their brethren.
rabbis and value
Just as important as ( if not more important than ) any particular law was the value the rabbis placed on legal study and debate.
The covenant is dismissed by the rabbis as having been invalidated due to the war the Jebusites fought against Joshua, but nevertheless David ( according to the rabbis ) paid the Jebusites the full value of the city, collecting the money from among all the Israelite tribes, so that the city became their common property.
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Encouraged, however, by letters signed by the rabbis of Argentière and Lunel, and particularly by the support of Kalonymus ben Todros, the nasi of Narbonne, and of the eminent Talmudist Asheri of Toledo, Ben Adret issued a decree, signed by thirty-three rabbis of Barcelona, excommunicating those who should, within the next fifty years, study physics or metaphysics before their thirtieth year of age ( basing his action on the principle laid down by Maimonides, Guide for the Perplexed part one chapter 34 ), and had the order promulgated in the synagogue on Sabbath, July 26, 1305.
Because Judaism focuses on this life, many questions to do with survival and conflict ( such as the classic moral dilemma of two people in a desert with only enough water for one to survive ) were analysed in great depth by the rabbis within the Talmud, in the attempt to understand the principles a godly person should draw upon in such a circumstance.
The Torah has little to say on the subject of survival after death, but by the time of the rabbis two ideas had made inroads among the Jews: one, which is probably derived from Greek thought, is that of the immortal soul which returns to its creator after death ; the other, which is thought to be of Persian origin, is that of resurrection of the dead.
Within Modern Orthodox Judaism, there is no one committee or leader, but Modern Orthodox rabbis generally agree with the views set by consensus by the leaders of the Rabbinical Council of America.
Authority on theological and legal matters is not vested in any one person or organization, but in the sacred texts and rabbis and scholars who interpret them.
* Rabbi Samson of Sens ( France ) was, apart from Maimonides, one of the few rabbis of the early medieval era to compose a Mishnah commentary on some tractates.
There is no single rabbinic body to which all rabbis are expected to belong, or any one organization representing member congregations.
In this world view, the Mishnaic and Talmudic rabbis are closer to the Divine revelation ; by corollary, one must be extremely conservative in changing or adapting Jewish law.
* The Chief Rabbinate of Israel was founded with the intention of representing all of Judaism within the State of Israel, and has two chief rabbis: One is Ashkenazic ( of the East European and Russian Jewish tradition ) and one is Sephardic ( of the Mediterranean, North African, Central Asian, Middle-Eastern and of Caucasus Jewish tradition.
On the one hand, the Zohar was lauded by many rabbis because it opposed religious formalism, stimulated one's imagination and emotions, and for many people helped reinvigorate the experience of prayer.
Although some rabbis since the Shabbetai Tzvi debacle still maintain that one should be married and forty years old in order to study Kabbalah, since the time of Baal Shem Tov there has been relaxation of such stringency, and many maintain that it is sufficient to be married and knowledgeable in halakhah and hence permitted to study Kabbalah and by inclusion, Tikunei haZohar ; and some rabbis will advise learning Kabbalah without restrictions of marriage or age.
For that reason, the rabbis ruled that one should not use a lulav and etrog on the eighth day, even outside of Israel.
This is why the rabbis ruled that one does not sleep in the sukkah on Shemini Atzeret, even outside of Israel.
Other yeshivas, such as Yeshiva Chaim Berlin ( Brooklyn, New York ) or the Mirrer Yeshiva ( in Brooklyn and Jerusalem ), do not have an official " semicha / rabbinical program " to train rabbis, but provide semicha on an " as needs " basis if and when one of their senior students is offered a rabbinical position but only with the approval of their rosh yeshivas.
* The Jewish Spiritual Leaders Institute ( JSLI ), offers a one year program, meets in weekly online classes via the Internet and ordains women as well as men as unaffiliated rabbis to meet the needs of unaffiliated Jews as well as interfaith couples and their families.
The rabbis taught a " quite literally ... down-to-earth " view of the eternalness of God: That " God is eternal but it is not given to man to explore the full meaning of this idea ," and so " one cannot, therefore, expect to find in the rabbinic literature anything like a detailed examination of what is meant by divine eternity.
The rabbis, playing on the name, call him Belo ' Am, meaning without people, more explicitly meaning that he is without a share with the people in the world to come, or call him Billa ' ' Am, meaning one that ruined a people.
Some Ashkenazi Jews in Israel who have married Sephardic Jews adopt the Sephardic custom ; this often occurs with Orthodox rabbinic approval — a noted leniency, since Orthodox rabbis usually hold that one may not reject the minhagim ( customs ) of one's parents.
Thus, one may conceive of the " Oral Torah " not as a fixed text but as an ongoing process of analysis and argument in which God is actively involved ; it was this ongoing process that was revealed at Sinai, and by participating in this ongoing process rabbis and their students are actively participating in God's ongoing act of revelation.
" The rabbis believe that Moses was ( and the Messiah will be ) a rabbi, God dons phylacteries, and the heavenly court studies Torah precisely as does the earthly one, even arguing about the same questions.
rabbis and tradition
Although there is no reference to reincarnation in the Talmud or any prior writings, according to rabbis such as Rabbi Avraham Arieh Trugman, reincarnation is recognized as being part and parcel of Jewish tradition.
Whereas the written Torah has a fixed form, the Oral Torah is a living tradition that includes not only specific supplements to the written Torah ( for instance, what is the proper manner of shechita and what is meant by " Frontlets " in the Shema ), but also procedures for understanding and talking about the written Torah ( thus, the Oral Torah revealed at Sinai includes debates among rabbis who lived long after Moses ).
While it never baldly advocates the case for broader societal acceptance of homosexuality or for the abandonment of elements of the Jewish religious tradition, those causes are subtly evident in the stark, simplistic picture the film presents of sincere, conflicted and victimized men and women confronted by a largely stern and stubborn cadre of rabbis.
Second, the Hebrew source texts used for the Septuagint differed from the Masoretic tradition of Hebrew texts, which was chosen as canonical by the Jewish rabbis.
Third, the rabbis wanted to distinguish their tradition from the newly emerging tradition of Christianity.
The rabbis of the Talmud declared, based upon a rabbinic tradition, that Amoz was the brother of Amaziah ( אמציה ), the king of Judah at that time ( and, as a result, that Isaiah himself was a member of the royal family ).
In the spring of 1993, Dorff served on the ethics committee of Hillary Rodham Clinton's Health Care Task Force, and in March 1997 and May 1999, he, along with other rabbis, testified on behalf on the Jewish tradition on the subjects of human cloning and stem cell research before the president's National Bioethics Advisory Commission.
Consequently, the rabbis recognized the need for writing commentaries on the Torah and Talmud and for writing law codes that would allow Jews anywhere in the world to be able to continue living in the Jewish tradition.
Conservative rabbis Alan Mittleman of the Jewish Theological Seminary and Elliot N. Dorff of American Jewish University also see themselves in the rationalist tradition, as does David Novak of the University of Toronto.
The key to the Hebraea veritas was the grammatical and exegetical tradition of the medieval rabbis, especially of David Kimhi, and when he had mastered this himself he was resolved to open it to others.
In the Jewish tradition, the rabbis in ancient times insisted on the marriage couple's entering into a marriage contract, called a ketubah.
Medieval and early modern rabbis also created a pietistic tradition of Jewish ethics.
* The pietistic musar tradition was continued by 18th century rabbis such as Moshe Chaim Luzzatto in his book Mesillat Yesharim.
While there are Orthodox Jews who commemorate the Holocaust on Yom HaShoah, others in the Orthodox community — especially Haredim, including Hasidim — remember the victims of the Holocaust on days of mourning declared by the rabbis before the Holocaust, such as Tisha b ' Av in the summer, and the Tenth of Tevet, in the winter, because in the Jewish tradition the month of Nisan is considered a joyous month associated with Passover and messianic redemption.
There is a tradition that a prospective convert should be turned away three times as a test of sincerity, though most rabbis no longer follow the tradition.
It is highly unlikely that someone would have developed a new Hebrew dialect all by himself, and written up books in Hebrew and readily added further traditions orally, giving a richly detailed differing sagely tradition ; moreover, his descriptions remained consistent and even the originally doubtful rabbis of his time were finally persuaded.
According to family tradition, his later success in Torah study was attributed to two blessings his parents had received from local rabbis before his birth.
The Centre claims astrology was lost in Jewish tradition as part of the suppression of Kabbalah by rabbis nearly 2000 years ago ( evidence of this includes ancient synagogues with zodiac rings ).
According to Orthodox Jewish tradition, scholars in one era within the history of halachic development do not challenge the rulings of previous-era scholars, and hence Acharonim cannot dispute the rulings of rabbis of previous eras unless they find support from other rabbis of previous eras.
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