Two Approaches toward Convening the Sanhedrin and Resuming Semikha in the Modern Era: R. Mendel HaKohen and R. Mordechai HaKohen of Tripoli
Before the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, Rabbi Aharon Mendel HaKohen indefatigably promoted a program of reconvening the Sanhedrin and resuming semikha – the historical form of rabbinical ordination that entailed “laying of hands.” Holding a rabbinical post in Cairo, he observed a di...
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Brill
2023
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The review of rabbinic Judaism
Year: 2023, Volume: 26, Issue: 2, Pages: 194-211 |
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semikha
B Sanhedrin B Laying on of hands B Rabbi Eliyahu Bechor Chazan B Zionism B Rabbi Aharon Mendel HaKoehn B rabbinic ordination B R. Mordechai HaKohen |
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