Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Rabbinical teachings and traditions.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rabbinic expression or phrase; a peculiarity of the language of the rabbis.
- noun A system of religious belief prevailing among the Jews from the return from the Jewish captivity to the latter part of the eighteenth century, the distinguishing feature of which was that it declared the oral law to be of equal authority with the written law of God.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A rabbinic expression or phraseology; a peculiarity of the language of the rabbins.
- noun The teachings and traditions of the rabbins.
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Examples
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This was in line with his overall view of the Hasidic spiritual revival as an authentically Jewish model for the rebirth of the Jewish nation on its historic land, cleansed of all the Diaspora maladies of “rabbinism.”
Hasidism. 2009
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Horodezky contrasted the equality he perceived between men and women in Hasidism with the exclusion of women from the intellectual and devotional life of what he termed “official Judaism” or “rabbinism.”
Hasidism. 2009
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Classifying the latter as intrinsically “rational” while defining Hasidism (together with mysticism and messianism) as “emotional” — faculties which he assumed as a matter of course to be inherent in the male and female natures respectively — he was able to argue that unlike “rabbinism,” which catered primarily for men, Hasidism was “naturally” both accessible and hospitable specifically to women.
Hasidism. 2009
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Never were rabbinism, the taste for the marvellous and the imagination of the orientals displayed to greater excess.
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It is a vestige of rabbinism; a fault into which the learned St. Jerome never fell.
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The tracing of likenesses quickly becomes rabbinism, almost cabalism.
A Book of Prefaces 1918
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Dupin had similar views and methods so that when Bossuet was writing the "Défense de la Tradition et des Saints Pères" (which did not appear, however, until 1743), he included both in his invectives against the "haughty critics" who inclined to rabbinism and the errors of Socinus.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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As in Susanna, there is no indication of rabbinism in the legal, religious, or social standpoints of the story.
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Of that scepticism which followed the refinements of rabbinism there is no trace, either here, or in Susanna, or in Bel and the Dragon.
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Nor is there any symptom of the later developments of rabbinism; not even in their inception.
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