When Michelangelo explained why he had come, Rabbi Melzi replied gravely:

When Rabbi Yaakov died in 1064, Rashi continued learning in Worms for another year in the yeshiva of his relative, Rabbi Isaac ben Eliezer Halevi, who was also chief rabbi of Worms.

When dealing with the individual, Rabbi Moshe Feinstein is famously quoted as characterizing all

When Redgrave was nominated for an Oscar in 1978, for her role in Julia, members of the Jewish Defense League ( JDL ), led by Rabbi Meir Kahane, burned effigies of Redgrave and picketed the Academy Awards ceremony to protest against both Redgrave and her support of the Palestinian cause.

When Rabbi Krustofski found out, he disowned his son, and did not speak to him for 25 years.

When Jacob Berab died, Karo was regarded as his successor, and together with Rabbi Moshe of Trani he headed the Rabbinical Court of Safed.

When controversy arose regarding the conscription of religious girls ( giyus banot ) into the Israel Defense Forces after the founding of the State of Israel in 1948, the photo of Kook was removed and replaced with one of Rabbi Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz who ruled that Jewish females are forbidden to perform National Service ( Sherut Leumi ) in lieu of army service.

When the founder of Hasidic Judaism, Rabbi Yisrael ben Eliezer, the Baal Shem Tov ( 1698 – 1760 ), emerged and made his teachings and influence felt through his own disciples, many rabbinical opponents of Hasidism were suspicious that he and his Hasidim were a class of Sabbateans.

When his family fled Spain, for Fez, Maimonides enrolled in the Academy of Fez and studied under Rabbi Yehuda Ha-Kohen Ibn Soussan-a student of Isaac Alfasi.

When Schneur Zalman died, many of his followers flocked to one of his top students, Rabbi Aharon HaLevi of Strashelye.

When Rabbi Menachem Mendel died ( in 1788 ), Rabbi Schneur Zalman was recognized as leader of the Chassidim in Lithuania.

When Lerner attacked seminaries for being " more interested in producing organizational men for Jewish life than spiritual leaders connected to the deepest spiritual and social-justice minds ", Rabbi Alan Lew said " That is arrogant nonsense ...

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When the Talmud attributes a teaching to Rabbi Shimon without specifying which Rabbi Shimon is meant, it means Shimon bar Yochai.

When the Romans attacked them, Rabbi Yehuda blocked the pass with his body allowing the others to escape and became one of Judaism's ten Rabbinic Martyrs himself by being speared 300 times.

When he arrived in the United States at the age of 18, he was placed in a Jewish orphanage where he created a stir by challenging the kashrut of the institution since the supervising rabbi did not have a beard and, more importantly, was not fluent in the commentaries of the Pri Magadim by Rabbi Yoseph Te ' omim.

When the European strongholds of Torah were replanted in America and Israel, it was the sons-in-law and grandsons of Rabbi Shraga Frank who cultivated it.

) When Rabbi Eliezer did not reply, Jacob quoted Micah 1: 7, " For they were amassed from whores ' fees and they shall become whores ' fees again.

When Eliezer ben Yehuda drafted his Standard Hebrew language, he based it on Sephardi Hebrew, both because this was the de facto spoken form as a lingua franca in the land of Israel and because he believed it to be most beautiful of the Hebrew dialects.

When Rabbi Yehuda Amital was appointed a Minister Without Portfolio after the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in November, 1995, Rabbi Melchior served as Amital's assistant.

When scientists first developed the theory of evolution, this idea was seized upon by Rabbis such as Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin, known as the Netziv, who saw Kabbalah as a way to resolve the differences between traditional readings of the Bible and modern day scientific findings.

When he turned 19, Giora Spiegel brought him to Bnei Yehuda after both Hapoel Kfar Saba and Maccabi Petah Tikva turned him down.

When his grandfather, Rabbi Yitzchak Meir, died in 1866, many of the Hasidim sought to bestow the mantle of leadership upon eighteen-year-old Yehudah Aryeh Leib.

When Leib Sarah's found him, he sang a song he knew from the shepherds, which he adapted to Judaism by changing the words.

When they were refused entrance to his brother's house nearby, they smashed down the door, broke the window, and threw lighted clothes wet with kerosene into the room.

" When the final payment on the farm was owed, Sam May refused to cover his brother-in-law's debts, as he often did, possibly at Abby May's suggestion.

When Democratic-Republicans in some states refused to enforce federal laws, and even threatened to rebel, Federalists threatened to send the army to force them to capitulate.

When management refused to support the concept, Ahl left DEC in 1974 to found the seminal computer magazine, Creative Computing.

When Bonds hit his 755th home run, Selig refused to applaud Bonds ' accomplishment, instead choosing to keep his hands in his pockets and have a look of disdain on his face.

When the Soviet Union was the only member state which refused to sign, the U. S. embarked on a massive nuclear weapons testing, development, and deployment program.

When they heard of the Praetorians ' claim, they demanded that Claudius be delivered to them for approval, but he refused, sensing the danger that would come with complying.

When bankers in Enid refused to lend him more money to build his planes, he moved to Wichita.

When Gail refused to go along with the plan, Joe sailed away and in the attempt, drowned for real, leaving Gail to be charged with his murder.

When the Communists captured the Nationalist capital of Nanjing in April 1949, Li refused to accompany the central government as it fled to Guangdong, instead expressing his dissatisfaction with Chiang by retiring to Guangxi.

When Pope Clement VII refused to annul the marriage, Henry defied him by assuming supremacy over religious matters.

When Dien Bien Phu fell in May 1954, Ike refused to intervene despite urgings from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the Vice President and the head of NCS.

When the authors refused to comply, he ordered it to be destroyed and instead had prepared an alternative report, which proved highly critical of Jellicoe.

When Auckland refused to put the agreement in writing, Dost Mohammad turned his back on the British and began negotiations with Vitkevich.

When Napoleon I ordered the invasion of Portugal in 1807 because it refused to join the Continental System, the Portuguese Braganças moved their capital to Rio de Janeiro to avoid the fate of the Spanish Bourbons ( Napoleon I arrested them and made his brother Joseph king ).

When Augeias learned of Heracles ' bargain for the task, he refused payment.

When Charles finally did propose marriage to Amanda later in 1979, the circumstances were tragically changed, and she refused him.

When he refused, Tammany went to the New York Supreme Court and successfully sued to keep Kelly ’ s name off the ballot.

When they refused, Galen performed the surgery himself and in so doing won the favor of the High Priest of Asia.

When they refused most of the fellows were ejected and replaced by Catholics.

When Nayler refused to kiss Fox's hand, Fox told Nayler to kiss his foot instead.

When the newly elected National Assembly refused to pass this document and drafted one of their own preserving this prohibition, it was forcibly dissolved by Gendarmerie commandant Smedley Butler.

When Röhm refused to kill himself, he was shot dead by two SS officers.

When they refused to hand the arms to the government, Ben-Gurion ordered that the ship be sunk.

When the Taliban refused to hand over bin Laden to US authorities and to disband al-Qaeda bases in Afghanistan, Operation Enduring Freedom was launched in which teams of American and British special forces worked with commanders of the United Front ( Northern Alliance ) against the Taliban.