While Rabbi Kaplan defines Judaism as a civilization, there are many who would not agree, citing millennia of religious tradition and observance as more than simple civilization.

While teaching Torah, Rabbi Judah would often interrupt the lesson to recite the Shema prayer.

While Jacobs found that statement to be compatible with Orthodox Judaism, the Chief Rabbi condemned his views as denial of the divine origin of the Torah.

While the Zionist movement was not founded during his lifetime, it is clear from his responses to Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Kalischer, and in several places in his commentary to the Bible and Siddur, that although he had a deep love for the land of Israel, he opposed a movement to wrest political independence for the land of Israel before the Messianic Era.

While a yeshiva student in Eastern Europe, Rabbi Shimon Schwab obtained the opinion's of various Poskim ( authorities in Jewish law ) to this effect ( see Selected Writings " These and Those " where Schwab himself disagrees ).

While Rabbi Kook is exalted as one of the most important thinkers in mainstream Religious Zionism, he was close to what is now called Chardal.

While fleeing from the advancing French army he wrote a letter explaining his opposition to Napoleon to a friend, Rabbi Moshe Meizeles:

While studying at the Slobodka Yeshiva, he befriended Rabbi Yitzchak Ruderman and Rabbi Yitzchak Hutner, both of whom would become leaders of great Rabbinical seminaries in America.

While such scholars as Rabbi Saadia Gaon, Rabbi Bahya ibn Paquda, and Rabbi Yehuda Halevi elaborated on proper monotheism and the issues of idolatry, without a doubt Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon ( Maimonides ) was the most thorough in his elucidation of monotheism and the problems of idolatry.

While in Vilnius, Kagan became a student of Rabbi Jacob Barit.

While it is difficult to determine which teachers had most influence on Rabbi Dessler, it is apparent that he is a child of the yeshiva world of the early 20th century, which was then influenced heavily by the ethical Mussar movement, but has similarly gained proficiency in Kabbalah and works of Hasidic Judaism and Jewish philosophy.

( While RIETS has at no point ever called itself a " Brisk yeshiva " per se, it was home for many decades to Rabbi Moshe Soloveichik and later his sons.

While she was in her forties, she had a unrequited relationship with Talmudic scholar Rabbi Louis Ginzberg.

While holding the position of Rabbi at the New London Synagogue, Dr. Jacobs was also for many years Lecturer in Talmud and Zohar at the Leo Baeck College, a rabbinical college preparing students to serve as Masorti, Reform and Liberal rabbis in the UK and Europe.

While Kling was not born Jewish, his wife was, and they were married by a Kansas City Rabbi Harry H. Mayer, of Temple B ' Nai Jehudah, a Reform congregation.

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.

While the normal service might be two or three hours long, Rabbi Aharon frequently drew the service out for five or more hours.

While Rabbi Aharon's opposition to Zionism predated the publication of the Satmar Rov's book Vayoel Moshe, the Satmar Rov's reasoning and Rabbi Aharon's reasoning for opposing Zionism are similar if not identical.

While usually giving his imprimatur to local customs, in the case of the custom to donate firecrackers and fireworks to the synagogue in honour of Simchat Torah, Rabbi Gombiner believed it proof of the effect of allowing boorish commoners to celebrate a scholars ' holiday.

While the British military historian Sir John Keegan suggested an ideal definition of battle as " something which happens between two armies leading to the moral then physical disintegration of one or the other of them ", the origins and outcomes of battles can rarely be summarized so neatly.

While the men of the tribe ate the body of the deceased and rarely contracted the disease, the women and children, who ate the less desirable body parts, including the brain, were 8 times more likely than men to contract kuru from infected tissue.

While an unlicensed satellite dish can often be identified easily, satellite radio receivers are much more compact and can rarely be easily identified, at least not without flagrantly violating provisions against unreasonable search and seizure in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

While amplification is rarely used in classical music, in some cases where a bass soloist performs a concerto with a full orchestra, subtle amplification called acoustic enhancement may be used.

While the range of two hellbenders may overlap, they are noted as rarely being present in the overlapping area when the other salamander is in the area.

While it is possible to write programs in machine code, because of the tedious difficulty in managing CPU resources, it is rarely done today, except for situations that require the most extreme optimization.

While rarely used in home games, the cut card is universal in casino play.

While most wearers find that PAs are comfortable to wear and rarely remove them, even during sex, some individuals might find that extremely large or heavy jewelry is uncomfortable to wear for long periods or interferes with the sexual functioning of the penis.

While inns and taverns were known from antiquity, these were establishments aimed at travelers, and in general locals would rarely eat there.

While out of the burrow, the rabbit will occasionally reingest its soft, partially digested pellets ; this is rarely observed, since the pellets are reingested as they are produced.

While Legislative power is technically vested in both the government and the parliament, the parliament rarely introduces legislation or votes down legislation proposed by the government.

While their aggressive, no-compromise attitude identified them as one of the instigators of the UK punk rock scene that followed, their idiosyncratic approach rarely followed any single musical genre and the group went on to explore a variety of musical styles, from New Wave, art rock and gothic rock through to the sophisticated pop of some of their 1980s output.

While this species carries the parasite that can cause Chagas disease, it rarely infects humans as defecation is delayed 20 – 30 minutes after feeding, in contrast to the immediate defecation behavior displayed by the Latin American species.

While XFree86 was used in most distributions before its license change with version 4. 4. 0, it has mostly been replaced by its fork X. org and is used rarely nowadays.

While poor form during the initial can lose a team the heat, it is otherwise rarely, if ever, decisive.

While commercially canned goods are required to undergo a " botulinum cook " in a pressure cooker at for 3 minutes, and so rarely cause botulism, there have been notable exceptions such as the 1978 Alaskan salmon outbreak and the 2007 Castleberry's Food Company outbreak.

While cathedral buildings, in general, tend to be large, size and grandeur have rarely been essential requirements.

While larger metric prefixes of a second are rarely used, subdivision prefixes are well established within science and technology.

While a fetus of ectopic pregnancy is typically not viable, very rarely, a live baby has been delivered from an abdominal pregnancy.

While most electric bass players rarely play chords ( two or more notes all sounded at the same time ), chords are used in some styles, especially jazz, progressive rock or Heavy Metal.

While Tok Pisin is usually referred to under this name, it is also sometimes — though rarely — called New Guinea Pidgin or, in academic contexts, Melanesian Pidgin, Melanesian Pidgin English or Neo-Melanesian.

While the latter ruling was famously defied by Jackson, the actions of the Jackson administration were not isolated because state and federal officials had violated treaties without consequence, often attributed to military exigency, as the members of individual Native American nations were not automatically United States citizens and were rarely given standing in any U. S. court.

While it rarely kills the trees, it lowers their growth rate by reducing the amount of light to a tree's own leaves.

While that race is rarely run outside of high school and collegiate invitational competition, it has been held at the international level.

While the index rarely gave outright buy or sell signals, over time it was found to give an accurate forecast of the stock market.