If only the priests and levites were allowed in the Jewish Temple...?

Question

Then when was it allowed for anyone to become a Rabbi?Also how were Synagoges started and non-Levitical Rabbis allowed run them?

Answer 1

1. Everyone was allowed in the TEMPLE, just not in a certain room IN the Temple called the "Kodesh Hak'doshim".

2. "Rabbi" is the Yiddish word for "teacher", not a priest. Anyone is allowed to become a rabbi if they go through Yeshiva, and an entire Jewish education.

3. When the Holy Temple was destroyed, the holy rabbis at the time claimed that there should be built "prayer houses" where the Jews will pray in place of the Temple.

Answer 2

All 'clean' Israelites were allowed in the temple, but only the priests were allowed in the Holy place, and one priest was allowed in the Most Holy place once a year. There was only one temple in Israel, and that was in Jerusalem.
Rabbi is another word for teacher. A synagogue is not a temple, so the priest rule does not apply.
As there is no longer a Jewish temple, I imagine that the rule is now obsolete. I do not know just what functions priests would have today.
EDIT:
The priests belonged to the Levite tribe. Those Levites who were not priests had the responsibility of caring for the temple, and for the utensils of the temple, of guarding the temple, and of forming the temple choir. Before the rabbis came along, the Levites were also supposed to participate in the teaching of the law to the people.
Rabbis as we know them probably began with the synagogues that started during the 70 year Babylonian exile, a few centuries before Christ.

Answer 3

no, the temple was a place of prayer and sacrifice open to ordinary people, although there were places that only the priesthood could enter. a rabbi is not a jewish priest, a rabbi is a person learned in jewish law and history. a jewish priest is called a kohen. synagogues were started as "meeting-houses" for congregations to gather in the absence of a temple. remembering that a rabbi is just a regular jew with a lot of education, a synagogue does not need a rabbi in order to run. all it needs is people.

Answer 4

I saw something on Discovery a few years ago about that. It started after Titus took Jerusalem and burned the temple in I think 70 AD. The jews were exiled from Palestine at that time. The Jews were scatered around Europe and the Middle East and they lost alot of their birth records etc.. So I think thats how it started.

Answer 5

The Jewish temples were split up into sections. There were palces were only the priests and levites could go and another section for the general public. (Almost positive, but don't quote me on it)

Answer 6

Rabbi means teacher, they don't claim the same high priesthood authority as those who went into the temple.


***note my source, so any Jews or Rabbis can correct me if I"m wrong***

Answer 7

Rabbis aren't priests; they are teachers.