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revision as of 18:55, September 21, 2013    In Judaism, a rabbi
/ˈræb/ is a teacher of Torah. This title derives from the Hebrew
word רַבִּי   Template:IPA-he, meaning "My Master" (irregular
plural רבנים rabanim Template:IPA-he), which is the way a
student would address a master of Torah. The word "master" רב
rav Template:IPA-he literally means "great one".  The basic form
of the rabbi developed in the Pharisaic and Talmudic era, when
learned teachers assembled to codify Judaism's written and oral
laws. In more recent centuries, the duties of the rabbi became
increasingly influenced by the duties of the Protestant
Christian minister, hence the title "pulpit rabbis", and in
19th-century Germany and the United States rabbinic a