Word: rabbis
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Counter discussed the letter with Held andHillel acting director Rabbi sally Finestone in aclosed-door meeting yesterday afternoon thatlasted more than two hours...
Wrong again. Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold, the director emeritus of Hillel who has been at Harvard since 1958, said on Sunday, "At no time were we approached [by the Foundation], either in writing or in conversation...
...problem must have gotten worse by February because by then, Rabbi Sally Finestone, the acting director of Hillel, was giving advice to students in a lecture entitled "Sex, Romance, and Rejection...
...followers say outright that he is, and some have petitioned him to "reveal" himself. The rebbe has on a few occasions denied that he is the Redeemer but has done little to discourage speculation. Two weeks ago, Schneerson received a vote of confidence from renowned Talmudic scholar Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz. Though a Lubavitcher himself, Steinsaltz has a reputation for sober erudition, so it caused a small stir among the non-Habad Orthodox when he said Schneerson was "the most likely person on the scene now" to become the Messiah...
Steinsaltz, who points out that Messianic expectation is a fundamental tenet of the Jewish faith, believes that each generation produces a candidate and that ordinary people can speed his coming by creating an atmosphere for Redemption. Other scholars reject Habad's active campaigning for the event. Followers of Rabbi Schach, a longtime rival of Schneerson's, believe the arrival of the Messiah is God's business, not man's. "When he comes, he comes," says Avraham Ravitz, a member of the Knesset. "It's crazy to force the Messiah to come by selling him like Coca-Cola, with jingles...