rabbinic

adj
/ɹəˈbɪnɪk/

Etymology

From rabbi + -n- + -ic.

  1. derived from רַבִּי
  2. derived from ῥαββί
  3. derived from rabbi
  4. inherited from raby
  5. formed as rabbinic — “rabbi + -n- + -ic

Definitions

  1. Relating to rabbis.

    • Yoni was hired as the shul's cantor, but he has a very rabbinic attitude.
  2. Formulated or enacted by rabbis.

    • Even though some modern Jews are less interested in rabbinic enactments than the traditions that have explicit roots in Biblical law, most still practice customs that would not exist without rabbinic innovation.
    • The book significantly extends on Rosenstein’s monumental 1990 work, “The Unbroken Chain,” which focused on the genealogies of the major Ashkenazi rabbinic dynasties from medieval times to the present.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at rabbinic. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at rabbinic. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at rabbinic

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA