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rabbi

/rab-ahy/US // ˈræb aɪ //UK // (ˈræbaɪ) //

拉比,犹太教士,犹太教教士,犹太教员

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural rab·bis.

    • : the chief religious official of a synagogue, trained usually in a theological seminary and duly ordained, who delivers the sermon at a religious service and performs ritualistic, pastoral, educational, and other functions in and related to his or her capacity as a spiritual leader of Judaism and the Jewish community.Compare cantor.
    • : a title of respect for a Jewish scholar or teacher.
    • : a Jewish scholar qualified to rule on questions of Jewish law.
    • : any of the Jewish scholars of the 1st to 6th centuries a.d. who contributed to the writing, editing, or compiling of the Talmud.
    • : Slang. a personal patron or adviser, as in business.

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Examples

  • Lawson felt she could do this more effectively if she had the title “rabbi,” and she wanted to raise awareness of racial and ethnic diversity in the Jewish community.

  • Lown was born Boruch Latz on June 7, 1921, in Utena, Lithuania, where a grandfather was a rabbi.

  • Lasry explained that his wife’s uncle, a rabbi at a Milwaukee senior-living center, had called her about having extra, unused doses of the vaccine.

  • “There are times we will look at someone eating alone in a restaurant and we feel like we can’t go on,” says Susan Silverman, a rabbi in Israel and one of three older sisters.

  • Still, by their very history, some rabbis deliver a powerful message.

  • One of my most important mentors was a brilliant and eccentric rabbi from Bethesda, Maryland.

  • Freundel is also rabbi of the prominent Kesher Israel synagogue in Washington.

  • His office let Rabbi Yehuda Kolko get away without jail time or registering as a sex offender.

  • Well, if it's Carrie and her spy-rabbi Saul, courtesy of the inimitable Mandy Patinkin, the answer is: Yes, we still are.

  • He remembered one day when Rabbi Bodenheimer came outside during recess.

  • And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him, "Rabbi, behold the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away."

  • Rabbi Gamaliel ordered his servant Tobi to bring something good from the market, and he brought a tongue.

  • The Rabbi Effendi had approached the river from a different direction, and that some years before.

  • Rabbi Mr. Wigram had needed some trifling repair to his boots, and had accordingly sent them overnight to a cobbler.

  • Again was Rabbi Jochanan filled with wonder, but he said naught, and they proceeded on their journey.