Rabbinical in a sentence as an adjective

I wasn’t required to, but I am glad to understand now what rabbinical judaism actually is.

During these years he received his rabbinical ordination.

There are indeed things that are disputed if they are biblically prohibited or rabbinically.

So it may not be a "rabbinical" rule but it came from rabbis and didn't directly follow from the bible and the rules for interpreting the words of the bible.

So once a rabbinical edict is accepted it has total and complete force of law with virtually no distinctions between it and biblical edicts.

There is no fooling going on because God is said to have promised to respect and validate these kinds of hacks, a form of devolved governance to the rabbinical law if you will.

" But the requirement to obey rabbinical prohibitions is itself biblical.

The rabbinical students thought the reason was that the Jews have a history of respecting learning: They respect their rabbis, who are really teachers, and they respect education.

I mean the rabbinical culture that Jesus was dealing with in the Gospels was based on a side-conversation the Jews were having about the Torah, not even about the Torah itself.

> consider the millennia of rabbinical commentary attached to the TalmudHow does this differentiate Jews from any other culture with writing?

One of the questions the rabbinical students and I discussed at some length was why it is that in academic things, such as theoretical physics, there is a higher proportion of Jewish kids than their proportion in the general population.

Just like saying that I have no basis in describing rabbinical law and should therefore not be determining what is and is not kosher, me saying that your source doesn't know what they are talking about when it comes to electronic trading is what is important.

Actually, there's a famous story in the Talmud of a rabbinical debate in which the rabbis argue about whether a certain oven is kosher or not. At the end of the story, one of the rabbis is told that God's reaction to this debate is, "My children have defeated me."The Jewish attitude is that God wants us to debate these laws, and that if we come up with interpretations that seem counter to the literal verses in the Bible, then that's totally OK. The rules were given to people to interpret, and now it's up to us to do that as accurately as possible.

> It's been long accepted that a sufficient rabbinical consensus can out-lawyer God itselfMaybe, I'm not an expert in Judaism, but this comparison with that description:> it's like the [...] Catholic papal infallibility doctrine...shows a deep failure to understand the doctrine of papal infallibility, and makes me suspect the characterization of the Jewish understanding is equally flawed.

Rabbinical definitions

adjective

of or relating to rabbis or their teachings; "rabbinical school"

See also: rabbinic