Crossword clues for rabbinate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1702, from rabbin "rabbi" (see rabbinical) + -ate (1).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The office or function of a rabbi 2 Rabbis collectively
WordNet
n. rabbis collectively
Wikipedia
The term rabbinate most generally refers to the office or function of a rabbi.
The term is also used to refer to specific rabbis as a group:
- Chief Rabbinate of Israel, the supreme Jewish religious governing body in the state of Israel
- Military Rabbinate, an Israel Defense Forces unit that provides religious services to soldiers, including non-Jews
- Chief Rabbinate of Russia
Usage examples of "rabbinate".
Judaism, and when I entered the rabbinate, it was to become a rabbi of the sort my father was and my grandfather before him, to live the life of a scholar, not in seclusion, not in an ivory tower, but as part of the Jewish community, and somehow to influence it.
A marriage performed by a Conservative or Reform rabbi in Israel is not recognized by the Chief Rabbinate, and hence the state of Israel, as legal and binding.
Israeli rabbinate tried to put obstacles in their way, but for the past fifteen years, the Israeli Orthodox parties have been trying to force the Israeli parliament to amend the Law of Return, which stipulates that any Jew in the world can come to Israel and automatically be granted citizenship.
Jewish communities for centuries, never really approved by the rabbinate but never banned either.
Whereas the rabbinate of Prague had been shaped, in the previous century, by one of the few rabbis of the era whose name would be remembered for centuries: Judah Loew ben Bezalel, also known as the Maharal.