Rabbinate Definition

răbə-nāt, -nĭt
noun
The position or office of rabbi.
Webster's New World
Rabbis collectively.
Webster's New World

Origin of Rabbinate

  • From obsolete rabbin rabbi rabbinical

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Rabbinate Sentence Examples

  • He momentarily thought of entering the rabbinate, but he was unsuited to that career.

  • He attacked Leon of Modena's anti-Kabbalistic treatises, and as a result of his conflict with the Venetian Rabbinate left Italy for Amsterdam, where, like Spinoza, he maintained himself by grinding lenses.

  • In 1836 he was appointed rabbi at Frankfort-on-the-Oder, in 1840 he was transferred to the rabbinate of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

  • He took the conservative side against the Reform agitation, and so strongly opposed the introduction of the organ into the Synagogue that he retired from the Rabbinate rather than acquiesce.

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