Synonyms:
rabbi
Meaning: spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation; qualified to expound and apply Jewish law
Usage examples
Or a rabbi?"
The rabbi ventured to glance outside.
The News reports the Rabbi as saying, "But we know through the Rabbinical Books that Jesus lived."
"HALLELUIA!" murmured the rabbi in a transport of gratitude as, standing on the threshold, he beheld the scene before him.
But it is with pleasure that the Independent Religious Society gives Rabbi Hirsch this opportunity to explain his position.
This is extraordinary; and as the Rabbi does not question the statement, we infer that it is a correct report of what he said.
The suspense which the rabbi had endured seemed to have suspended the functions of life, and he lay nearly an hour unable to move.
With tears in his eyes at the thought of this resolute soul rejecting salvation, the venerable Pedro Arbuez d'Espila, approaching the shuddering rabbi, addressed him as follows:
This prisoner was no other than Rabbi Aser Abarbanel, a Jew of Arragon, who--accused of usury and pitiless scorn for the poor--had been daily subjected to torture for more than a year.
One, while listening to his companion, gazed at the rabbi! And, beneath the look--whose absence of expression the hapless man did not at first notice--he fancied he again felt the burning pincers scorch his flesh, he was to be once more a living wound.