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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Korban (redirect from Sacrifices in judaism)
discharges. Other sacrifices include: Dough offering (challah) Voluntary offerings Procedures connected to sacrifices include: Semicha (laying on hands)...
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yeshiva studies in Fürth at the age of fifteen, under Rabbis Wolf Hamburger and Judah Leib Halberstadt. Five years later he received semicha (rabbinic ordination)...
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Conversion to Judaism (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from August 2016)
Judaism. A number of rabbis were Orthodox and had semicha from Orthodox yeshivas, but were serving in synagogues without a mechitza; these synagogues were...
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Abraham Joshua Heschel (category American poets in Yiddish)
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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Jonathan Sacks, Baron Sacks (category Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs)
self-sacrifice of parenting children, and that "the major assault on religion today comes from the neo-Darwinians". He argued that Europe is in population...
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Ordination of women (redirect from Women in ministry)
rabbi) in Humanistic Judaism in 1999. Women in Conservative, Reform, Reconstructionist, Renewal, and Humanistic Judaism are routinely granted semicha (ordination)...
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Yhoshua Leib Gould (category Haredi rabbis in Israel)
and he was Bar Mitzvahed in the synagogue of the Sigheter Rebbe. He was given semicha in Dayanut the same day. It was also in Sighet that he met the Satmar...
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Takkanah (section In modern times)
actions for debt may be tried even by judges who have not yet received semicha (Sanhedrin) a contract may be authenticated only by the witnesses who have...
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2004 attempt to revive the Sanhedrin (category 2004 in Israel)
First to Renew Semicha, Dies at 74". Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 13 September 2020. Rabbi Yaakov Beirav's attempt to re-establish a Sanhedrin in 1538 Nadav...
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