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...years ago, he told the court, one of his wives came down with a nervous ailment, and when doctors failed to help her, Barzilai bethought himself of a miracle-working Yemenite rabbi whom he had heard of in nearby Akir. Barzilai went to see him and was at once impressed. Rabbi Barti held a sheet of blank paper over the kerosene stove, and slowly there appeared a message on it signed by the Angels Gabriel, Michael and Raphael. A talisman to cure Barzilai's wife would be found on the rabbi's roof, said the angel...
Some of the people who poured into the synagogue for its dedication thought the building looked like a broken egg. But Manhattan Rabbi Israel Goldstein, whose own synagogue is richly ornamented, attended the dedication and took Rau's side. He found the temple "very conducive to prayer. I believe it will be imitated. It is simply beautiful-using the words literally-and its modesty is right, in a country which is both modest and austere...
...turning good into bad. Morris manages to get through each day without dishonesty or cheating. He dies of a heart bursting with regret that "I gave away my life for nothing." But Morris was wrong, and Novelist Malamud proves him so in a tenderly moving funeral sermon by a rabbi who never knew...
...description of the New Jerusalem, and a targum (i.e., a translation of a Hebrew text into Aramaic, the colloquial language of Christ's time) of the Book of Job. In all probability this is the targum that disappeared when it was suppressed (for still-obscure theological reasons) by Rabbi Gamaliel I, teacher of Saul the Pharisee, who later rode down the road to Damascus to become Paul the Apostle...
...Hasidic term for leader, stemming from the Hebrew rabbi, meaning teacher. *An esoteric system of speculation on metaphysics which went in for much symbolical manipulation of words and names. The cabala originated in Palestine but came under strong Babylonian influence between 500 and 900 A.D. Its best-known work, the Zohar, compiled in the 13th century, had a profound influence on Hasidism...