• Semikhah (redirect from Semicha)
    underlying Talmudic sugyas. See the related discussion re "semicha-testing programs" and "online semicha" at List of rabbinical schools § Orthodox. Pluralistic...
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  • this semicha and ordained Rav Moshe Alshich, it is not clear he utilized the semicha in any other way. Nowhere does he refer to a renewal of semicha, and...
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  • In the Hebrew Bible, semicha (literally "leaning") refers to the priest's placing of his hands before the offering of a korban (animal sacrifice) in the...
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  • network, many of which, in contrast, include a semicha program. Since the 1950's, unlike in other streams, semicha is obtained by the bulk of Chabad yeshiva...
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  • priesthood. Members of the Sanhedrin had to receive their ordination (semicha) in an uninterrupted line of transmission from Moses, yet rather than being...
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    Jewish law and custom. Traditionally, a man obtains one of three levels of Semicha (rabbinic ordination) after the completion of an arduous learning program...
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  • replicating the structure of a traditional shiur. Its offering extends through Semicha (Rabbinic ordination). It was founded in November 2007 by Rabbi Chaim Brovender...
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    standards for conversion to Judaism. A number of rabbis were Orthodox and had semicha from Orthodox yeshivas, but were serving in synagogues without a mechitza;...
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    a Semicha ("rabbinic ordination") program, usually in preparation for the "Semicha of the Rabbanut"; many Hesder graduates would also obtain semicha from...
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    he discontinued his law studies to train for the rabbinate, receiving semicha (ordination as a rabbi) from RIETS, where he was a student of Rabbi Dovid...
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    Parent(s) Israel and Gita Silberhaft Residence(s) Johannesburg, South Africa Semicha Rabbinical Ecclesiastical Court of Jerusalem Website www.africanjewishcongress...
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  • recently included a semicha (Rabbinical Ordination) program under Rabbi Eliyahu Schneider (the first "graduates" received their semicha in the 2006-2007...
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    is referred to as semikhah (Hebrew: סמיכה, "leaning [of the hands]", or semicha lerabanim Hebrew: סמיכה לרבנות, "rabbinical ordination"). The term is derived...
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  • for students to undertake classes for rabbinical ordination, known as semicha. The term is a compound of the Hebrew words rosh ("head") and yeshiva (a...
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    a rabbi, which denotes that they have received rabbinical ordination (semicha). They are addressed as Rabbi or Rabbi Surname or (especially in Sephardic...
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    they married in Sydney in 1988. He then returned to New York, and took semicha (rabbinical ordination) in 1988. By 2019, Boteach and his Australian wife...
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    Fendel, an undergraduate yeshiva, and a rabbinical school that grants Semicha (ordination). Rabbinical students at the yeshiva often spend a decade or...
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    Christ's College, Finchley Occupation Rabbi philosopher theologian author Semicha London School of Jewish Studies Etz Chaim Yeshiva (London) Website Official...
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  • where he received semicha (rabbinic ordination) in 1994 and subsequently at the Gateshead Beis Hatalmud Kollel. He received further semicha-ordinations from...
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    "Yoreh Yoreh" semicha from Rabbi Ahron Soloveichik . Kletenik received semicha in the areas of gittin and Even Ha'ezer and "Yadin Yadin" semicha from Rabbi...
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    Jewish Education thesis). Ordination (Semicha), myjewishlearning.com Rabbi Steven Blane (N.D.). "Ordination and Semicha", jsli.net See chapter "Talmudic Exegesis"...
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  • one-year “pre-Semicha” program, also, which covers practical areas of Halakha, Jewish Law, additional to the “regular” components of Semicha. The Yeshiva...
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    Aish. Retrieved 2024-07-11. (2 February 2017) "Aish Hatorah's Amazing Semicha Program", theyeshivaworld.com. Retrieved 20 January 2020. "About Aish Smicha"...
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  • Denomination Orthodox Judaism Alma mater London School of Jewish Studies: Semicha, MA Jewish leader Predecessor Bernard M. Casper Successor Warren Goldstein...
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    traditional yeshiva education and studying for Orthodox rabbinical ordination (semicha), Heschel pursued his doctorate at the University of Berlin and rabbinic...
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    Orthodox Jewish scholarship. Many of his responsa are required reading for semicha (rabbinic ordination) candidates. His chiddushim (original Torah insights)...
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  • the workforce in Israel or other countries. Students accepted into the Semicha program (ordination) are required to spend three-years studying Halacha...
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    belief, however, he was not one of the rabbis who received the special semicha ("ordination") from Jacob Berab in 1538, alongside Joseph Karo, Cordovero's...
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    Torah learning in Israel and abroad through many programs including the Semichas Chaver Program (SCP), which he oversees and certifies. Among Amar's earliest...
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    became an enthusiastic supporter of Berab's plans for the reinstitution of semicha (rabbinical ordination) which had been in abeyance for over 11 centuries...
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