Word: rabbi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rabbi, Gordon...
...learning run to several hundred dollars in price; in general, only synagogues and big libraries can afford to have copies. To make it more accessible, Conservative Judaism's United Synagogue of America this week published the first volume of a new paperback translation of the Talmud, edited by Rabbi Arnost Ehrman of Jerusalem's Hebrew University...
...oldest part is the Mish nah, or Teaching, a selection of the Oral Law as taught by synagogue sages and compiled by Rabbi Judah Hanasi at the end of the 2nd century. The rabbi divided this oral teaching into six main divisions called "orders," covering agriculture, festivals, marriage, civil and criminal laws, sacrifices, and ritual purification. In the 4th century, another great editor, Rav Ashi, began to compile the Gemara (study), or commentaries on the Mishnah by later rabbis. His work was completed by Jewish scholars in Persia during the 5th century and is known as the Babylonian Talmud...
...marriage to a Negro that he confesses was loveless, he turned to religion, became one of the world's most celebrated converts to Judaism. His interest in things Jewish had begun when Eddie Cantor had pressed a mezuzah, a holy Hebrew charm, into his hand, increased when a rabbi comforted him in the hospital after his accident, and ended with formal conversion after four years of study...
...Rabbi, Gordon...