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...micha-the laying on of hands by which Jewish rabbis were ordained for more than 1,500 years. But S'micha is something more than a simple ceremony of ordination. It is conferred only upon Orthodox rabbis who 1) have devoted years to intensive study of the Talmud and the complex, exacting Jewish Law, and 2) have satisfied their rabbinical superiors as to their scholarship and piety. Without receiving S'micha, rabbis may preach, head synagogues and serve as chaplains, but for Orthodox Jews may decide no questions of Jewish...
...nchen-Gladbach, Corporal Sidney Talmud of the 38th Canal Construction Battalion decided to celebrate the Ninth Army's assault crossing of the Rhine and the Passover season. On the porch of Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels' onetime home, he set up a camp stove and made potato pancakes for passersby...
Young Louis Leopold Mann despised all rabbis, thought there was not a real, red-blooded man among them. Then one day he read in the Talmud, "If there be a need for a man, be thou that man," decided he would enter the rabbinate. He left Louisville, went to Johns Hopkins (where an English professor wrote on one of his themes: "Please describe something. You always preach."), then to Cincinnati's University and Hebrew Union College, then to Yale for a doctorate in psychology...
From the Seminary, neighbor of Union Theological Seminary, have graduated, since 1886, some 300 rabbis. There today candidates still spend four or five years studying the Old Testament and the Talmud, Hebrew literature, theology, homiletics. All rabbis know Hebrew, though English is now used for many services...
...Brain." Heir to the life of the spirit is the ascetic, The Pale One, Moyshe (Moses) Wasservogel, orphaned long ago in a Carpathian pogrom, named by his saviors after "that other who was picked up out of the stream of life." At nine-and-a-half Moyshe knew the Talmud and the Torah, at 15 he was drafted into the Tsar's Army...