Rabbinic

American  

[ruh-bin-ik] / rəˈbɪn ɪk /

noun

1. the Hebrew language as used by rabbis in post-Biblical times.

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Rabbinic ¹ British  

/ rəˈbɪnɪk /

noun

1. the form of the Hebrew language used by the rabbis of the Middle Ages

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rabbinic ² British  

/ rəˈbɪnɪkəl, rəˈbɪnɪk /

adjective

1. of or relating to the rabbis, their teachings, writings, views, language, etc

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Other Word Forms

• rabbinically adverb

Etymology

Origin of Rabbinic

1605–15; < Medieval Latin rabbīn ( us ) of a rabbi ¹ + -ic

Example Sentences

The son pursued studies both secular—at the City College of New York and Columbia University—and traditional, receiving rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 1902, where he soon joined the faculty and stayed on until his retirement in 1963.

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But that did not keep him from accepting rabbinic appointments elsewhere.

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Milton, who “cited both Scripture and the rabbinic sages,” argued that individuals “need not Kings to make them happy, but are the architects of their own happiness; and . . . are not less than Kings,” an idea embodied in the Declaration’s assertion of the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

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It opened in the Warburg mansion on Fifth Avenue in 1947, but it traces its origins to 1904 and the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, the rabbinic and educational center of the Conservative Jewish movement.

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Roth, in Mr. Zipperstein’s telling, probed Jewish life—and its collision with American ambition—with more fidelity than any rabbinic sermon could offer.

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