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A Question For Hebrew Scholars?
Would a rabbi during the rein of Herod I(73/74 BCE – 4 BCE) be required to marry?
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- allonyoavLv 77 years agoFavorite Answer
There were no rabbis during the reign of Herod, the title of Rabbi only started after the destruction of the second Temple first beign used probably around 80CE
To be a judge on the Sanhedrin, either the great Sanhedrin or the lesser courts in outlying cities (the precursors to arbbis- early Rabbis were judges not just communal leaders) HAD to be married or to have been married, have children, an academy of students and be acknowledged experts in the entirety of Torah, Mishnah (oral law), Midrash, Sod (what today we would call Kabbalah), Nevi'im (Prophets), Ketuvim (Scriptures) requirements were far stricter for them and early Rabbis than for the modern day title
Source(s): Orthodox Jew; Reverend; Torah Talmud masechta Sanhedrin - ?Lv 77 years ago
Rabbi is modern - post diaspora.
The priests (sanhedrin, sadducee, pharisee - splitters!) of the temple married certainly. Priests in the villages were more peasant than priest and married.
See Josephus "On the Jewish War" - he was born to the priestly class and served as a priest before the rebellion.