rabbi

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Recent Examples of rabbi Chai Posner is the senior rabbi at Beth Tfiloh Congregation in Pikesville. Chai Posner, Baltimore Sun, 30 Apr. 2025 Kogan, 28, was an ultra-Orthodox rabbi and entrepreneur who managed Rimon Market, a kosher grocery store in Dubai, a city that has seen an influx of Israeli tourists and businesses since the Abraham Accords. Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025 The rabbis, both of high repute, belong to different generations and display differing levels of stringency—the stricter is a grandfather; the other, his son-in-law, is more lenient but by no means lax. Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2025 Season 1 of the series, which follows the unlikely romance between an agnostic podcaster and a rabbi, spent six weeks in Netflix’s Global English Top 10 TV List and reached the Top 10 in 89 countries. Lynette Rice, Deadline, 7 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for rabbi
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Noun
  • The situation remains the same, but your relationship to it changes completely. Transform your triggers into your greatest teachers Become a zen entrepreneur by transforming your relationship to triggers.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
  • The bus flipped over and caught fire; the children were trapped inside, and six died, along with one of their teachers.
    The Atlantic, The Atlantic, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • The 20th-century German-Jewish political philosopher escaped the Nazi Holocaust, and won regard as one of the world’s greatest public intellectuals at a time when few women were appointed to university faculties.
    Kim Samuel, Scientific American, 16 May 2025
  • As Chu sees it, intellectuals have confused the state’s real obligation to be neutral—to not arrest or deport people for their political speech—with a critic’s imaginary obligation to pretend art is politically neutral.
    S. C. Cornell, New Yorker, 2 May 2025
Noun
  • In 1980, after meeting the yogi Swami Muktananda at an ashram in the Catskills, Rashad began practicing Siddha yoga, which trains its followers to recognize the divinity in themselves and the surrounding world.
    Reggie Ugwu, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Maybe the resident baker-in-chief could use a new recipe stand for pouring over ingredients or the hardcore yogi could use a new mat.
    Sarah Madaus, Architectural Digest, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Several sequels followed, including one called Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff, in which Karloff plays a hypnotist swami from the Orient.
    Jordan Hoffman, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The swami named her Ganga, for the Ganges River.
    BostonGlobe.com, BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2021
Noun
  • The musician is a walking satire of downtown presumptions—and his ferocious intellect turns out to be all business, too.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 10 May 2025
  • Profound wisdom lives in your most receptive, quiet thoughts so your intuition can guide you where intellect sometimes can’t.
    Colin Bedell, Them., 2 May 2025
Noun
  • Planting sage near beans can enhance the growth of your herbs and encourage sage to produce more leaves for harvesting.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 May 2025
  • In the weeks between Passover and Shavuot, a plague raged amongst the disciples of the great sage Rabbi Akiva and on Lag BaOmer, the dying ceased.
    Rabbi Moishe Kievman, Sun Sentinel, 9 May 2025
Noun
  • The pop-up also included an in-person Transform discussion with health guru Jay Shetty and an athletic wear shop featuring their latest Form Athletics Collection, which goes live on their website today.
    Nadja Sayej, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
  • That elite quintet consisted of domestic policy advisor Bruce Reed, chief strategist Mike Donilon, legislative affairs guru Steve Ricchetti and chief of staff Ron Klain, each of whom had deep ties to Biden.
    Leigh Haber, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2025
Noun
  • The wizard with the task of pulling this off indoors is Al Zaabi.
    Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
  • Sophie sets out to find a way of lifting the curse and goes to the wizard Howl's castle.
    Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 10 May 2025

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