Rabbi

Quick meaning: Rabbi is a noun meaning A Jewish scholar or teacher of halacha (Jewish law), capable of making halachic decisions.

Meaning

A Jewish scholar or teacher of halacha (Jewish law), capable of making halachic decisions.

More Meanings

1. A Jew who is the leader or is qualified to be the leader of a Jewish congregation.
2. (law enforcement, slang) A senior officer who acts as a mentor.

Example Sentences

Hoskins? He doesn't have a better rabbi in the department than that?

If I'm ever gonna make Captain, I need a good mentor. I need my rabbi.

Next, R. Moskowitz brings us to the Slonimer Rebbe, a late 20th century Hasidic rabbi, who taught that the evil of Esav was that very sense of completion, the self-perception that he had no need for growth or further transformation.

"Elon Musk is spreading the kind of antisemitism that leads to massacres," reads the decree, which was signed by 164 "rabbis, leaders of Jewish organizations, artists, activists, and academics." "And advertisers are funding the platform that allows him to spread his ideology to hundreds of millions [of] people."

Word Forms

• rabbis
• rabbies
• rabbanim
• rabbanin
• rabbonim
• rabbonin
• rabbin
• rabboni

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