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In 19th century Germany and the United States, the duties of the rabbi became increasingly influenced by the duties of the Protestant Christian Minister, hence the title "pulpit rabbis". Sermons, pastoral counseling, representing the community to the outside, all increased in importance. Non-Orthodox rabbis, on a day-to-day business basis, now spend more time on these traditionally non-rabbinic functions than they do teaching, or answering questions on Jewish law and philosophy. Within the Modern Orthodox community, rabbis still mainly deal ...

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Rabbi, Rabbi - History, Rabbi - Moses and Joshua: The first rabbis, Rabbi - Era of the Tanakh the Hebrew Bible, Rabbi - Sages as rabbis, Rabbi - The role of the rabbi in the last 200 years, Rabbi - Women and the rabbinical credential, Rabbi - Modern Orthodox trends in female leadership, Rabbi - Becoming a rabbi, Rabbi - Orthodox Judaism, Rabbi - Haredi and Hasidic Judaism, Rabbi - Conservative and Masorti Judaism, Rabbi - Reform and Reconstructionist Judaism, Rabbi - Acceptance of who is a rabbi, Rabbi - Rabbinic seminaries unrelated to the major Jewish denominations, Rabbi - Becoming a rabbi: To have or not to have ordination

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The rabbi is not an occupation found in the Torah (i.e the Pentateuch) as such; the first time this word is mentioned is in the Mishnah (most commonly thought to be codified around 200 C.E, that codification often attributed to Rabbi Judah Hanasi). The more ancient generations had no such titles as Rabban, Ribbi, or Rab , for either the Babylonian sages or the sages in Israel. This is evident from the fact that Hillel I, who came from Babylon, did not have the title Rabban prefixed to his name. Of the proph ...

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Rabbi, Rabbi - History, Rabbi - Moses and Joshua: The first rabbis, Rabbi - Era of the Tanakh the Hebrew Bible, Rabbi - Sages as rabbis, Rabbi - The role of the rabbi in the last 200 years, Rabbi - Women and the rabbinical credential, Rabbi - Modern Orthodox trends in female leadership, Rabbi - Becoming a rabbi, Rabbi - Orthodox Judaism, Rabbi - Haredi and Hasidic Judaism, Rabbi - Conservative and Masorti Judaism, Rabbi - Reform and Reconstructionist Judaism, Rabbi - Acceptance of who is a rabbi, Rabbi - Rabbinic seminaries unrelated to the major Jewish denominations, Rabbi - Becoming a rabbi: To have or not to have ordination

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Rabbi - Moses and Joshua: The first rabbis. By tradition Moses was the first rabbi of the Children of Israel. To this day he is known to most Jews as Moshe Rabbeinu ("Moses our Teacher"). Moses is also considered the greatest prophet in the Hebrew Bible. Moses passed his leadership on to Joshua as commanded by God in the Book of Numbers, where the subject of semicha ("laying [of hands]" or "ordination") is first mentioned in the Torah in Numbers 27:15-23 [1] and Deuteronomy 34:9 [2]. By Jewish tradition, the authority granted by semicha has been passed from rabbi to rab ...

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Historically and until the present, recognition of a rabbi relates to the rabbi's competence to interpret Jewish law and act as a teacher on central matters within Judaism. More broadly speaking, it is also an issue of being a worthy successor to a sacred legacy. As a result, there have always been greater or lesser disputes about the legitimacy and authority of rabbis. Historical examples include Samaritans and Karaites. Acceptance of rabbinic credentia ...

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Rabbi, Rabbi - History, Rabbi - Moses and Joshua: The first rabbis, Rabbi - Era of the Tanakh the Hebrew Bible, Rabbi - Sages as rabbis, Rabbi - The role of the rabbi in the last 200 years, Rabbi - Women and the rabbinical credential, Rabbi - Modern Orthodox trends in female leadership, Rabbi - Becoming a rabbi, Rabbi - Orthodox Judaism, Rabbi - Haredi and Hasidic Judaism, Rabbi - Conservative and Masorti Judaism, Rabbi - Reform and Reconstructionist Judaism, Rabbi - Acceptance of who is a rabbi, Rabbi - Rabbinic seminaries unrelated to the major Jewish denominations, Rabbi - Becoming a rabbi: To have or not to have ordination

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The role of women in the Bible is contradictory: few women are mentioned by name and role, suggesting that they were rarely in the forefront of public life. There are, however, numerous exceptions to this rule (the Matriarchs, Deborah the Judge, Abigail who married David, Esther), who in the Biblical account did not meet with opposition for the relatively public presence they had. Role of women in Judaism - Views within classical rabbinic literature. The classical Jewish literature contains quotes that may ...

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This section covers responsa written during fifteenth to the eighteenth century, and includes responsa of Italian, Turkish, German, and Polish rabbis. This period is the richest in the responsa literature. It would be impossible to enumerate all the collections made within it, so it must suffice to mention the chief representatives of each century and country. History of Responsa - Characteristics. These rulings are different from those of the previous periods in the nature of the problems presented, in th ...

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During the Geonic period (650-1250 CE), the Babylonian schools were the chief centers of Jewish learning; the Geonim, the heads of these schools, were recognized as the highest authorities in Jewish law. Despite the difficulties which hampered the irregular communications of the period, Jews who lived even in most distant countries sent their inquiries concerning religion and law to these officials in Babylonia. In the latter centuries of the geonic period, from the middle of the tenth to the middle of the eleventh, their supremacy suffered, ...

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History of Responsa, History of Responsa - Talmudic era, History of Responsa - Pre-Mishnaic era, History of Responsa - Mishnaic era, History of Responsa - In the Talmud, History of Responsa - Geonim, History of Responsa - Characteristics, History of Responsa - Earlier Geonim, History of Responsa - Later Geonim, History of Responsa - Rishonim, History of Responsa - Characteristics, History of Responsa - Eleventh century, History of Responsa - Twelfth century, History of Responsa - Thirteenth century, History of Responsa - Fourteenth century, History of Responsa - Acharonim, History of Responsa - Characteristics, History of Responsa - Fifteenth century, History of Responsa - Sixteenth century, History of Responsa - Seventeenth century, History of Responsa - Eighteenth century, History of Responsa - Nineteenth century to early twentieth century, History of Responsa - Twentieth century, History of Responsa - Conservative and Masorti responsa, History of Responsa - Responsa of Orthodox Judaism

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In the more limited sense of the term, Conservative Judaism is a unified movement; the international body of Conservative rabbis is the Rabbinical Assembly (RA), the organization of synagogues is the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism (USCJ), and the primary seminary and cantorial school is the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS) in New York City. Conservative Judaism outside the USA is often called Masorti Judaism; Masorti rabbis belong to the Rabbinical Assembly. Other seminaries include the University of Judaism in Los Angeles, California; the Marshall Meyer Seminario Rabbinico Lati ...

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History of Responsa - Conservative and Masorti responsa. Main articles: Conservative responsa, and [[{{{2}}}]], and [[{{{3}}}]], and [[{{{4}}}]]See also:

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Like Reform Judaism, the Conservative movement developed in Europe and the United States in the 1800s, as Jews reacted to the changes brought about by the Enlightenment and Jewish emancipation. In Europe the movement was known as Positive-Historical Judaism, and it is still known as "the historical school." Positive-Historical Judaism, the intellectual forerunner to Conservative Judaism, was developed as a school of thought in 1850s Germany by a number of thinkers, including Rabbi Zecharias Frankel. Frankel rejected the positions take ...

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A prominent Conservative spokesman has written that "Reform Judaism has asserted the right of interpretation but it rejected the authority of legal tradition. Orthodoxy has clung fast to the principle of authority, but has in our own and recent generations rejected the right to any but minor interpretations. The Conservative view is that both are necessary for a living Judaism. Accordingly, Conservative Judaism holds itself bound by the Jewish legal tradition, but asserts the right of its rabbinical body, acting as a whole, to interpret and to apply Jewish law." Source: Rabbi Mordecai Waxman Tradition an ...

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