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Rabbi vs Erudite - What's the difference?

rabbi | erudite |

As a noun rabbi

is rabbi.

As an adjective erudite is

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rabbi

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A Jewish scholar or teacher of halacha (Jewish law), capable of making halachic decisions.
  • A Jew who is or is qualified to be the leader of a Jewish congregation.
  • A senior officer who acts as a mentor.
  • * 2006 , , "Soft Eyes":
  • * 2013 , , "Pilot":

    • Related terms

    * rav, rabbeinu, rebbe, reb, rebbetzin

    erudite

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Learned, scholarly, with emphasis on knowledge gained from books.
  • * 1850 , , Ch. XII:
    • At all events, if it involved any secret information in regard to old Roger Chillingworth, it was in a tongue unknown to the erudite clergyman, and did but increase the bewilderment of his mind.
  • * 1913 , , The Custom of the Country , ch. 43:
    • Elmer Moffatt had been magnificent, rolling out his alternating effects of humour and pathos, stirring his audience by moving references to the Blue and the Gray, convulsing them by a new version of Washington and the Cherry Tree . . ., dazzling them by his erudite allusions and apt quotations.
  • * 2006 , Jeff Israely, " Preaching Controversy," Time , 17 Sept.:
    • Perhaps his erudite mind does not quite yet grasp how to transform his beloved scholarly explorations into effective papal politics.

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    Related terms

    * eruditely * erudition