| Yet they're estranged from their parents, who call during a Shabbat dinner only because their rabbi advised them to. |
| Half an hour before Shabbat, the Orthodox rabbi in Sacramento that they knew retrieved us. |
| Though she'd been told otherwise, right to the last that woman thought a surprise rabbi would appear from the rafters to say mazel tov. |
| One time, a chassid who was a diamond merchant asked the rabbi what virtues he saw in these unlearned people. |
| The great twelfth century rabbi Maimonides ranked eight types of giving in order of virtue. |
| Were he a member of the board, would he have denounced the rabbi as Torquemada redivivus? |
