Words matter. These are the best Rabbi Quotes from famous people such as Ephraim Mirvis, David Novak, Ezra Furman, Fran Lebowitz, Arthur Hertzberg, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I feel very privileged indeed to be appointed to be the next Chief Rabbi.
The rabbi is often the regular preacher in the synagogue, the man whose sermons offer his community more general theological and moral guidance.
I was thinking very carefully about going into education, becoming a teacher, maybe becoming a rabbi.
Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
A traditional rabbi is the man to whom the community and its members turn to rule on what Jewish law requires of them, particularly in cases of doubt.
How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt.
Of all the rabbinic sages of antiquity, perhaps none was more influential or famous than Rabbi Akiva.
First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
A rabbi should not despair if people do not do as much as they should. Every parent has that with children. God is merciful.
When I would hear the rabbi tell about some miracle such as a bush whose leaves were shaking but there wasn’t any wind, I would try to fit the miracle into the real world and explain it in terms of natural phenomena.
The beth din is the court of the chief rabbi. I see myself taking an active role within the beth din.
I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father… it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.
I went to Temple Emanu-El, and my rabbi, Rabbi Landsberg, was a huge influence on me. When I was 7 and went to kindergarten, there he was, a young rabbi who didn’t wear a yarmulke and rode a motorcycle.
Perhaps we would do well to listen to the likes of Rabbi Harold Kushner, who contends that God is not really as powerful as we have claimed.
I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things.
An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!
The first profile piece on myself came about after my Rabbi sent information to the Jewish Chronicle on what I was up to. The story was then picked up by one of the nationals and things grew from there.
I went through a little hippy dippy program at Brandeis and was bat mizvahed by the rabbi who married my parents. We celebrated the High Holidays and had the traditional Rosh Hashanah dinner.
My wife and I are affiliated with a temple here in Los Angeles. We feel very close to the congregation and to the rabbi, who happens to be my wife’s cousin and who I admire greatly. I talk to him regularly but I consider myself more spiritual than religious.
‘Rabbi’ means ‘teacher,’ and I see the role of chief rabbi as chief teacher.
My brothers were rabbis. My grandfather was a rabbi.
I learned early on that ‘rabbi’ means teacher, not priest.
I knew I had a remarkable voice, but I was embarrassed because it was so high. But when I sang at my bar mitzvah, the rabbi was in tears. He said to my parents, ‘He must become a cantor in the synagogue,’ but my mother said, ‘No, he’s going to be a concert pianist.’
I wanted to be a soccer player. And then I wanted to be a rabbi.
Rabbis throughout the ages, from Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak Hacohen Kook onward, strictly prohibited going up on the Temple Mount. And now there is a minority group of rabbis encouraging Jews to go.
In my neighborhood, everyone had an opinion on the local cantor. You didn’t go to a synagogue to listen to the rabbi’s sermon. You went to listen to the cantor. It was like a concert.
Just for the record, I personally do agree with some of the sentiments of Rabbi Meir Kahane. I think he was right about certain things, wrong about other things, but I have absolutely nothing, no association whatsoever with Kahane Chai leaders.
My father was a rabbi and had a little synagogue in Canada, so I’m from Canada. I left there at 16.
My parents were Zionists born in Poland. My father was a rabbi who didn’t know much about science and ran a grocery store in the neighborhood with my mother’s help.
I knew nothing about professional comedians when I became a comedian. I was a rabbi. So I had no professional comedians to learn from.
