Rabbi
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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RABBI Heb.,=my master; my teacher, the title of a Jewish spiritual leader. The role of the...transformations. In the Talmudic period, rabbis were primarily teachers and interpreters of the Torah. They developed the liturgy...one, with the incumbent taking on the additional role of supervision of the religious life of the community. Rabbis of the Reform...