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Scottish poet keeping books outside a religious office
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rabbinate
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The office or function of a rabbi 2 Rabbis collectively
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1702, from rabbin "rabbi" (see rabbinical ) + -ate (1).
Wikipedia
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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 ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And conversions of the kind Mantzur wanted for his wife and daughter also must be approved by the Orthodox rabbinate . ▪ At this time the father dedicates his son to the study of the Torah or to the rabbinate . ▪ The Orthodox ...
WordNet
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n. rabbis collectively
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.