How to Use rabbinic in a Sentence

rabbinic

adjective
  • The plot concerns a rabbinic prodigy named Nahum, who falls in love with his father-in-law’s young wife and gets her pregnant.
    — Adam Kirsch, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Bat mitzvah was part of the rabbinic arsenal for keeping newly trick-or-treating Jews in the fold.
    — Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2022
  • The divorce took place within the month at the Modern Orthodox rabbinic court.
    — Tova Reich, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Those ideas include the statements of rabbinic sages, medieval thinkers and modern authorities.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 May 2022
  • Amid rabbinic debates over straight shofars or curved ones for Rosh Hashana, Maimonides says only a curved ram’s horn will do.
    — Sarah Pessin, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Programs continue to open because there is a demand among Orthodox women for the chance to study rabbinic texts.
    — Michal Raucher, The Conversation, 19 Nov. 2025
  • Programs continue to open because there is a demand among Orthodox women for the chance to study rabbinic texts.
    — Michal Raucher, The Conversation, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Yet, these halachic exams test only one dimension of rabbinic leadership.
    — Rabba Sara Hurwitz, Sun Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Glikin is partnering with a number of different rabbinic colleagues and will lead two Seders in Warsaw.
    — Dallas News, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Without Hebrew letters, the language would be stripped of its ties to the Bible and other rabbinic literature.
    — The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2022
  • In 2015, two Israeli rabbis sued the French government in a rabbinic court for control of the site.
    — Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2019
  • In fact, the noun Shechinah first appears in rabbinic literature after the Temples have been destroyed.
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 10 May 2021
  • Today, dozens of institutions offer programs for Orthodox women who want to study rabbinic law.
    — Michal Raucher, The Conversation, 19 Nov. 2025
  • Today, dozens of institutions offer programs for Orthodox women who want to study rabbinic law.
    — Michal Raucher, The Conversation, 30 Apr. 2026
  • After the court ruling, the rabbinic authorities refused to administer the exams to anyone, men or women, for more than half a year.
    — Daniel Estrin, NPR, 28 May 2026
  • The rabbinic sages say that God gathered dust from this spot to create Adam, the first man, before setting him loose in the Garden of Eden.
    — Daniel Burke, CNN, 22 May 2017
  • The institutions where women can learn Talmud and rabbinic law span the Orthodox landscape.
    — Michal Raucher, The Conversation, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The institutions where women can learn Talmud and rabbinic law span the Orthodox landscape.
    — Michal Raucher, The Conversation, 19 Nov. 2025
  • Now, after a years-long court battle, Israel has finally allowed women to take the official rabbinic exams.
    — Daniel Estrin, NPR, 28 May 2026
  • The rabbinic sages counseled patience, seeking a diplomatic accommodation that would avert mass bloodshed.
    — Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2025
  • This reflects the original pre-rabbinic core of the holiday, which was declared by the new Hasmonean dynasty to celebrate its triumph.
    — Joshua Shanes, The Conversation, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Kosman grew up in a rabbinic family in Moscow, Russia, where she was surrounded by a vibrant cultural scene.
    — Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt, Glamour, 12 Apr. 2021
  • Even rabbinic leaders in the denomination in which Green was ordained, Chabad, depart from that position.
    — Philissa Cramer, sun-sentinel.com, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Some rabbinic readings attribute Lot’s hesitation to leave Sodom to his immoral greed and inordinate wealth.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 July 2026
  • Other meanings persist The rabbinic tradition has not disappeared.
    — Joshua Shanes, The Conversation, 11 Dec. 2025
  • There’s also a 1978 portrait of de Waal’s father, Victor de Waal, which the author says looks rabbinic.
    — Sandee Brawarsky, sun-sentinel.com, 22 Nov. 2021
  • Shavuot became a time to celebrate the study of the Torah and its many rabbinic commentaries, including the Mishnah and the Talmud.
    — Laura Yares, The Conversation, 22 May 2023
  • At the time, Jewish thought was dominated by Talmudists, orthodox scholars of rabbinic law.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2022
  • But the midrash—the Jewish rabbinic interpretive tradition—tells a different version.
    — Ilana Kurshan, The Atlantic, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Two paintings, for example, lampoon the rabbinic authorities who enforce religious law.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2024

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