Semikhah
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Sep 14, 2026
David LapinHOST
We've talked about that quite a lot recently.
David LapinHOST
And if you look, I've quoted in the footnotes on the next page, from the page of the Smicha, what Rabbi Eiger writes about him.
David LapinHOST
I had just been learning this minutes before.
David LapinHOST
How important it is to have Yirut Shemayim before you learn.
Reuven BrandHOST
[clears throat] I went to the OU Summer Kashrus Seminar, amazing.
Reuven BrandHOST
And then we were able to also, some of the Smicha guys, we got some of the documents.
Reuven BrandHOST
The old OU documents.
Reuven BrandHOST
Now they're updated, but at that time, Rabbi David Cohen, shlit"a, was still working in the OU when I was in New York, and somebody asked him for permission to get the internal documents.
Yitzchak EtshalomHOST
And therefore, [Hebrew] that might explain the redundancy of those two words.
Yitzchak EtshalomHOST
Here, Yermiyahu says, "I can't speak [Hebrew]." It could mean that he means, "I'm not ready yet." Sort of, "I don't have Semikhah yet.
Yitzchak EtshalomHOST
I'm not ready yet to be a Navi.
Yitzchak EtshalomHOST
I'm only in training." This would explain very nicely what follows.
speaker_1HOST
Because Avos is in Halacha.
speaker_1HOST
The Mishnah is in Chagigah that discuss whether there should be Smicha or not on Yom Tov and all those things.
speaker_1HOST
All of those are in Idios.
speaker_1HOST
Only in Idios.
Aryeh LebowitzHOST
Um, but before we finish Hagdah as Basar, there's one more, uh, just one anecdote to share with you.
Aryeh LebowitzHOST
It was Yadua in the times of the Marshan that the Marshan would give Smicha, uh, to people, and the way he would give Smicha to people was unlike most, uh, Rabbanim who gave Smicha, where they had a standard set of questions that they would ask the, uh, potential, uh, candidates, where they would come up with interesting cases, you know, where you have to identify, you know, the different, uh, issues.
Aryeh LebowitzHOST
Marshan would just, uh, share whatever issues came to his table that week.
Aryeh LebowitzHOST
He would, like, say, "Okay, from the Rabbi's desk, here are the shailas that came up this week.
Aryeh LebowitzHOST
Uh, what do you think?" And that's how he would give the Smicha Bethina.
Aryeh LebowitzHOST
So a guy came with a shaila that, and don't ask me how this happens, but that Tefillin fell into a pot of milk.
Aryeh LebowitzHOST
Uh, so they were cooking milk, and his Tefillin fell into the pot, and he wanted to know.
Mordechai DinermanHOST
Then he jumps to the fifteen hundreds, and he goes to Rab Levi Ibn Habib.
Mordechai DinermanHOST
Rab Levi Ibn Habib is famous for the dispute he had with Rab Yaakov Berababal renewing the Smicha in the fifteen thirties.
Mordechai DinermanHOST
We did a series of classes on that.
Mordechai DinermanHOST
And so, in that whole polemic back and forth, in Kontras Gimel, Rab Levi Ibn Habib writes as follows: "I've been in Yerushalayim for fourteen years," he says, "and I have accomplished so far two great things.
Mordechai DinermanHOST
More information is beyond the scope of what we need to do today.
Mordechai DinermanHOST
So that's chos number one he has.
Mordechai DinermanHOST
And chos number two is, "I didn't let the Rabbonim Tzvah do Smicha, okay? I got in the way of that, so that's my second big chos." But what's the point? So Rabakivi Yosef reads that, and the way he understood this passage was, "So what do you see?" He says, "There wouldn't have even been a minyan," implying that how many Jews are there? Only a minyan.
Mordechai DinermanHOST
Now, is that what Rabach meant? I don't know.
Marcus RubensteinHOST
And this actually was a, this is, this is a tradition that went back a long time that the shofar was always blown, uh, within the temple districts.
Marcus RubensteinHOST
Um, At present, while the temple is destroyed, wherever a court whose judge receives smicha and eretz Israel, smicha is not just a normal rabbi, but rather the traditional ordination that goes down from Moshe Rabbeinu from person to person to person as a Torah authority.
Marcus RubensteinHOST
Unfortunately, we lost this line during the Talmud, so we don't really have...
Marcus RubensteinHOST
We haven't had smicha judges in over 1,500 years or ordained judges.
Marcus RubensteinHOST
rabbis in this way.
Marcus RubensteinHOST
So we can't really do this anymore.
Esti HamiltonGUEST
You know, you know, when you're a teenager, you have lots of, and then, um, after I went to seminary, I went to two years of seminary.
Esti HamiltonGUEST
I married my husband and we moved to Israel, um, for him to do Smicha and Revit Zagberg versus Kolel.
Esti HamiltonGUEST
And, um, We were in Israel and I was in Haranof.
Esti HamiltonGUEST
So I'd gone for my second year of seminary to a program at Maalot in Neve.
Aryeh LebowitzHOST
And I just figured we'd give her chizik to speak to some of my Rebbeim.
Aryeh LebowitzHOST
I run the Smicha program.
Aryeh LebowitzHOST
We don't teach how to do this.
Aryeh LebowitzHOST
How to have these conversations.
Moshe LichtmanGUEST
You know, I, I try to learn as much as I can.
Moshe LichtmanGUEST
But it's funny, right before Ema Bonim Semikhah fell into my lap, I had decided, you know, I had finished Semikhah.
Moshe LichtmanGUEST
I got Semikhah from, from Yeshiva University, RIETS, and I also got Semikhah from the Rabbonut, which is, there's four basic tests, and the lowest level of Semikhah is called Rav Shchuna, the Rav of a neighborhood.
Moshe LichtmanGUEST
And the next level is Rav Ir.
Moshe LichtmanGUEST
So you have to take a few more tests.
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