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- Dictionaryrabbi/ˈrabʌɪ/
noun
- 1. a Jewish scholar or teacher, especially one who studies or teaches Jewish law.
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Teacher of Torah in Judaism
A rabbi is a spiritual leader or religious teacher in Judaism. One becomes a rabbi by being ordained by another rabbi—known as semikha—following a course of study of Jewish history and texts such as the Talmud. The basic form of the rabbi developed in the Pharisaic (167 BCE–73 CE) and Talmudic (70–640 CE) eras, when learned teachers assembled to codify Judaism's written and... Wikipedia