Semikhah (Hebrew: סמיכה) is the traditional Jewish name for rabbinic ordination. The original semikhah was the formal "transmission of authority" from...
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The laying on of hands is a religious practice. In Judaism semikhah (Hebrew: סמיכה, "leaning [of the hands]") accompanies the conferring of a blessing...
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Nasi in 425 CE, the transmission of semikhah has been suspended. Attempts in the 16th century to reinstate the semikhah were unsuccessful; Rabbi Yosef Karo...
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on a daily basis, except perhaps to study. Because rabbinic ordination (Semikhah) has the features of a post-graduate academic degree, some study to receive...
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Chief Rabbinate of Israel (section Semikhah)
Jewish organizations in the United States. The Chief Rabbinate confers the semikhah (i.e., Rabbinic ordination) once the candidate has passed a series of six...
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Aryeh Lebowitz (category Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary semikhah recipients)
author and posek. He is the director of the Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik Semikhah Program at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University...
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Yankı (born 1958), Turkish pop music singer, presenter and film actress Semikhah This page or section lists people that share the same given name. If an...
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the opinion of Maimonides (1135–1204), who proposed a mechanism by which semikhah and the Sanhedrin could be reestablished. There have been several attempts...
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Law for a Sanhedrin, and the inability to form one due to the loss of semikhah. In his magnum opus, the Mishneh Torah, he proposed a procedure to re-establish...
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U.S. Spouse(s) Margaret Wenig (divorced) Randi Weingarten (m. 2018) Education Barnard College (BA) Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (Semikhah)...
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