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- himself. According to Maimonides the other two need not be semukhim. Today, semikha is generally through an institution, a yeshiva or specialized kollel, but...
- community taxation. After a number of years, the students who received semikha (rabbinical ordination) would either take up a vacant rabbinical position...
- Judaism. One becomes a rabbi by being ordained by another rabbi—known as semikha—following a course of study of Jewish history and texts such as the Talmud...
- תורנית), denoting a female "leader of Jewish law spirituality and Torah." Semikha is awarded to graduates after a 3- or 4-year-long program composed of intensive...
- institutions usually offer a kollel for Semikha, or Rabbinic ordination. Students generally prepare for the Semikha test of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel...
- became an enthusiastic supporter of Berab's plans for the reinstitution of semikha "rabbinical ordination", which had been in abeyance for over 11 centuries...
- Feivel Paretzky, and Rabbi Eli B. Shulman. He now teaches in the RIETS semikha program. He used to be an instructor of Talmud at the Mazer Yeshiva Program...
- to lead the services as a hazzan (cantor).[citation needed] He received semikha (rabbinic ordination) from Yitzchak Hutner. In 1950 Carlebach set up a...
- Rabbi Aaron Leibowitz, a long time Nachlaot resident. It offers a one-year Semikha (ordination) program, serving, largely, the "Anglo" community. Alongside...
- received his undergraduate degree from Yeshiva University in 1998 and semikha from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary in 2002, where he studied...