This also applies when and if a couple would like to divorce, they must seek out rabbinical council.
After all, the rabbinical councils in each city hold extraordinary social power, even though the religious parties do not sit in the Government.
If that is the way the rabbis feel, they told the court, the rabbinical council can revoke the kosher certificate for the 15 or 20 minutes Miss Raskin is dancing.
He had earlier been effectively excommunicated by the rabbinical council of Amsterdam for his perceived heresies.
Zev had arrived at the rabbinical council wearing a cross and had been thrown out-literally sent hurtling through the front door.
Feldafing also had a rabbinical council that supported its religious office, an agency that held considerable influence within the camp.
The federal rabbinical council then drove him from the city, but Sabbatai Zevi went to disseminate his doctrine in other cities around the Sephardic world.
In the late 1940's Rabbi Tabek was president of the rabbinical council, the umbrella body of Orthodox religious leaders in the United States and Canada.
He forged official opinions of the rabbinical council of Constantinople in favor of Sabbatai's claims to Messiahship.
Vaads still exist as rabbinical councils, each with its own purview.