The rabbis paled. I'd managed to terrify holy men. Maybe I could beat up a nun for an encore.
Quotes about rabbis (12 Quotes)
The President gives Prayer Breakfasts. He almost invariably has at them, from the Jewish community, the most Orthodox hard-line rabbis he can find, or that can be found for him. The liberals are under-represented, or not represented at all.
I have been in touch with several rabbis around the community, and we're holding a meeting on Wednesday to see what collectively we can do, whether it's providing information in Russian to the Russian Jews, or holding meetings at different venues.
I and other rabbis are considering putting a cherem ban on any Jew that desecrates mosques or other holy places, ... What right do Jews have to hurt the places of worship of other faiths It is a good thing that the peoples of the world pray to God.
Both of us went to Catholic school and were altar boys. We wanted to make the material funny and somewhat irreverent, but were careful not to make the finished product too offensive. It's a thin line, but we've had both pastors and rabbis who've seen it and thought it was great.
It was admitted by the early rabbis that the sectarians could be as full of good works as eggs were full of meat.
The Jewish settlers of Gaza and in the West Bank have a dream for the future of Israel.... The settlers' dream is to create a 'Greater Israel' with Jewish settlements wall-to-wall.... In such a state, democracy will have to bow to the rabbis. The Knesset, the government, the Supreme Court, will be allowed to continue to exist, provided that the rabbis approve of their decisions.... If we, secular Israelis, erase our own existence, the settlers will shower us with brotherly love. But if we insist that we have a different vision for Israel, we immediately become traitors, Arab-lovers or even Nazis.
We have rabbis up in the mixing room with stop watches to make sure everything gets done within 15 minutes. Then the machinery is thoroughly cleaned by the rabbis and our workers.
These are exceptional cases, but people are people, rabbis and clergymen are human beings, and they do occur, ... We try to help a congregation go through healing, because a rabbi is in a special position and it is as if a member of the family were involved. We encourage congregations to look at the totality of the situation, the whole of the clergyman, and to understand that many mistakes, depending on the situation, are forgivable.
How can such a man be chased away in a world full of churches, where there are clans and clans, groups and groups of priests, quacks, gurus, ministers, pastors, rabbis, muftis and other representatives of the cults Dont they represent mans devotion to the church, dont they serve religion What people serve today is not a religion of the man that would identify him with his own divinity, but a religion that identifies man to the salve of an external divinity, as if it not man who knows this world, but the external divinity. Lets assume that the external divinity knew this world which would be independent of mans ephemeral existence. Then why does this world disappear with the man Because it is his world. The world of the dinosaurs existed when there were not people, we have relics of that time. Who dreamed the world of the dinosaurs It was the current man too, when he discovered it, because dinosaurs saw it completely different from what the man sees, and eve if man existed at the time, the dinosaurs would have still seen it different, as animals or birds, fishes or reptiles do.
To me the truth is such an essential element in spiritual life, ... It's not only respected, it's sought for . . . Maybe I was feeling a little nave, but I just expected more from priests and rabbis and religious-based organizations in their consideration of this case.
Armies are hierarchical and disciplined by nature, and they simply can't tolerate two systems of authority. The army is making it very clear that taking orders from rabbis won't be tolerated.