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Semichaotic
Semichaotic Sem`i*cha*ot"ic, a. Partially chaotic.

Meaning of Semicha from wikipedia

- underlying Talmudic sugyas. See the related discussion re "semicha-testing programs" and "online semicha" at List of rabbinical schools § Orthodox. Pluralistic...
- 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...
- this semicha and ordained Rav Moshe Alshich, it is not clear he utilized the semicha in any other way. Nowhere does he refer to a renewal of semicha, and...
- priesthood. Members of the Sanhedrin had to receive their ordination (semicha) in an uninterrupted line of transmission from Moses, yet rather than being...
- network, many of which, in contrast, include a semicha program. Since the 1950's, unlike in other streams, semicha is obtained by the bulk of Chabad yeshiva...
- Jewish law and custom. Traditionally, a man obtains one of three levels of Semicha (rabbinic ordination) after the completion of an arduous learning program...
- he discontinued his law studies to train for the rabbinate, receiving semicha (ordination as a rabbi) from RIETS, where he was a student of Rabbi Dovid...
- recently included a semicha (Rabbinical Ordination) program under Rabbi Eliyahu Schneider (the first "graduates" received their semicha in the 2006-2007...
- standards for conversion to Judaism. A number of rabbis were Orthodox and had semicha from Orthodox yeshivas, but were serving in synagogues without a mechitza;...
- for students to undertake classes for rabbinical ordination, known as semicha. The term is a compound of the Hebrew words rosh ("head") and yeshiva (a...