Editing Louis Jacobs (section)

==Early career==
Jacobs was born in [[Manchester]] on 17 July 1920.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rabbi Louis Jacobs |url=https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/rabbi-louis-jacobs/ |access-date=2023-02-12 |website=My Jewish Learning |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Council |first=Manchester City |title=Manchester City Council - Tel: 0161 234 5000 |url=https://www.manchester.gov.uk/ |access-date=2023-02-12 |website=www.manchester.gov.uk |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Goldman">{{Cite news |last=Goldman |first=Ari L |date=9 July 2006 |title=Louis Jacobs Is Dead at 85; British Rabbi and Scholar  |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/09/world/europe/09jacobs.html|access-date = 12 August 2020}}</ref> He studied at Manchester [[Yeshivah|Yeshiva]], and later at the [[Gateshead Kolel|kolel in Gateshead]]. His teachers included leading Rabbi [[Eliyahu Dessler]]. Jacobs was [[Semikhah|ordained]] as a rabbi at Manchester Yeshiva. Later in his career, he studied at [[University College London]] where he gained his PhD on the topic of ''The Business Life of the Jews in [[Babylon]], 200–500 CE''. Jacobs was appointed rabbi at Manchester Central Synagogue<ref>{{Cite web |title=Church registers - Central Synagogue, Jewish: Manchester City Centre {{!}} Manchester City Council |url=https://www.manchester.gov.uk/directory_record/437002/central_synagogue_jewish_manchester_city_centre/category/784/burials_graves_and_deaths |access-date=2023-02-12 |website=www.manchester.gov.uk}}</ref> in 1948. In 1954, he was appointed to the [[New West End Synagogue]] in London.

Jacobs became Moral Tutor at [[Jews' College]], London, where he taught [[Talmud]] and [[homiletics]] during the last years of Rabbi Dr [[Isidore Epstein]]'s tenure as principal. By this time, Jacobs had drifted away from the strictly [[Orthodox Judaism|traditional]] approach to Jewish theology that had marked his formative years. Instead, he struggled to find a synthesis that would accommodate Orthodox Jewish theology and modern day [[Higher criticism|higher biblical criticism]]. Jacobs was especially concerned with how to reconcile modern-day Orthodox Jewish faith with the [[documentary hypothesis]]. His ideas about the subject were outlined in the book, ''We Have Reason to Believe'', which was published in 1957. The work was originally written to record the essence of discussions held on its title's subject at weekly classes given by Jacobs at the New West End Synagogue, and resulted in some mild criticism (but not in any major censure) at the time.