Kage Baker

According to Jewish legend, only the very wisest and very holiest rabbis had the power to make golems, animated servants of clay. Strictly speaking, the golem is not in the same class with Frankenstein's monster, because the golem is neither alive nor dead. He is, rather, the ancestor of all robots.

American Writer

Marianne Williamson

Priests, ministers and rabbis are asking where the children are going. Slowly but surely, they're seeing that people are hungry for something beyond the doctrine. It isn't that they don't want religious truth. But they want the mystical core, the heart of the religious truth.

American Author

Gene Simmons

I refuse to stand up in front of a rabbi and my friends and the woman I love - who I will tell you I can love with all my heart - and promise she will be the only one I will ever have until the day I die. That's a lie.

American Musician

Richard P. Feynman

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.

American Physicist

Yair Lapid

The rabbis and their wives may say whatever they wish in private conversations. I may not like their views, but a person is allowed to say anything in his or her own home.

Israeli Politician

Ezra Furman

I was thinking very carefully about going into education, becoming a teacher, maybe becoming a rabbi.

Ephraim Mirvis

Rabbi' means 'teacher,' and I see the role of chief rabbi as chief teacher.

South African Clergyman

Jake Epstein

I wanted to be a soccer player. And then I wanted to be a rabbi.

Canadian Actor

Fran Lebowitz

Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.

American Journalist

Saul Leiter

My brothers were rabbis. My grandfather was a rabbi.

American Artist

Use 'rabbi' to refer to a Jewish authority who guides on religious matters.

Judaism Authority

'Rabbi' implies a role of leadership, often in charge of a synagogue.

Leadership Role

Rabbis often act as counselors, offering advice and support to people.

Community Counselor

Becoming a rabbi involves intense academic study, not just a leadership role.

Academic Achievement

A rabbi must be officially ordained after completing religious study.

Ordination Required

Rabbis educate others in Jewish tradition, law, and customs.

Teacher of Tradition

'Rabbi' can also be an honorific for venerable Jewish teachers or scholars.

Respectful Address

Many historical rabbis are revered and their teachings are studied in depth.

Cultural Icon

A rabbi can be an academic or community leader, not just a synagogue official.

Not Only Clerical

 actually connected with my surroundings he did it I knew he could do it that's my rabbi out there I did it I actually served it was the most incredible feeling to have not only accomplished something that I'd set out to do but that feeling of being on that surfboard and blocking out the entire world was a really inspiring experience for me it's

The Surfing Rabbi PIPE...

 our nature is to be peaceful, our nature is to be healthy. And so happiness is not something you get, health is generally not something that you get, but rather, all of these different practices -- you know, the ancient swamis and rabbis and priests and monks and nuns didn't develop these techniques to just manage stress

Dean Ornish: Healing...

 because they were written by my grandfather's favorite authors. My grandfather was a rabbi and he was a widower who lived alone in a small apartment in Brooklyn that was my favorite place in the world when I was growing up, partly because it was filled with his very gentle, very courtly presence

The power of introverts...

 Maimonides but these are not exactly my books I brought these books with me because they were written by my grandfather's favorite authors my grandfather was a rabbi and he was a widower who lived alone in a small apartment in Brooklyn that was my favorite place in the world when I was

 of one individual coming to another and telling them things that they would not tell their preacher or rabbi, and then, incredibly on top of that, disrobing and allowing touch -- I would submit to you that that is a ritual of exceeding importance. And if you shortchange that ritual

Abraham Verghese: A...

 this rabbi talking about Passover created a new dinner that everyone in the world participated in but what does my not funny chunk so don't worry about that I really mean this I think we can have a big dinner where there's things at the dinner that represent our real

What I learned at...

 Once you've got your characters and story, here are a few quick and easy comedy writing tricks to make them zing. The rule of three, or zig zig zag. Try setting up an expected pattern, zig zig, then flip it, zag. A rabbi, a priest, and a coconut walk into a bar.

How to make your writing...

 This is when our institutions and our leaders are stuck in a paradigm that is rote and perfunctory, devoid of life, devoid of vision and devoid of soul. Let me explain what I mean like this. One of the great blessings of being a rabbi

It's time to reclaim...

 all my life as a theater maker. We are told that divine knowledge comes down through the masculine, whether it be to the imam, the priest, the rabbi, the holy man. Similarly, we're told that creative genius resides in the masculine,

Why women should tell...

 And the rabbis and the early fathers of the church who said that any interpretation of scripture that bred hatred and disdain was illegitimate. And we need to revive that spirit. And it's not just going to happen