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Semichah: Rabbinic ordination.
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A Brief History of Rabbinic Ordination (Semicha)
The word rabbi means “my master” in Hebrew. A rabbi is a religious leader of Jewish people. Some rabbis lead congregations (synagogues), others are teachers, and yet others lead informally. Rabbinic ordination is known as semichah. In common parlance, a r...
How the sages bravely maintained the Jewish Calendar in times of persecution
The miracle of Jewish history is that we have been able to survive as one nation for millennia. Despite being scattered throughout the world, immersed in different cultures, and speaking different languages, Jews everywhere read the same Torah and celebra...
International group gathers at Rabbinical College of America in Morristown, N.J.
Marking an important stage in a lifetime of intensive Torah study and ready to serve Jewish communities around the world, 147 young rabbis congregated with family and friends on Sunday, June 9, at the Chabad-affiliated Rabbinical College of America in Mor...
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Zach Gomo is far from uneducated. Yet even with two advanced degrees, the assistant principal of Bialik College—an acclaimed Jewish day school in Melbourne, Australia—still wanted more. And at the age of 34, studying mostly alone at home, he has now becom...
He dedicated his life to Torah study and instruction
Rabbi Meir Aharon had a meticulous daily routine all his life, never wasting a minute. When he rode the bus each morning from his home in Bnei Brak, Israel, to Lod, where he taught schoolchildren, he’d study seven folios of Talmud. After returning home fr...
They were burning with an urge for revenge. “Let us ambush the new rabbi at night and beat him to a pulp,” one suggested.
A "house of law," the beit din is a Jewish court. It settles monetary disputes, oversees kosher production, handles marriage and divorce, and offers Torah guidance.
Some 700 guests from eight nations at the ordination ceremony in New Jersey
The Chabad-affiliated Rabbinical College of America outside of Morristown, N.J., presented certificates to 257 newly ordained rabbis, the majority of whom congregated on Sunday in the leafy suburb with family and friends for what is possibly the largest c...
Great Torah centers, most notably in Eretz Israel, Turkey, and Poland, arose to replace the destruction of the Spanish communities.
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