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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Main Author: Atia, Ronel (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2023
In: The review of rabbinic Judaism
Year: 2023, Volume: 26, Issue: 2, Pages: 194-211
Further subjects:B 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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