You will be examined concerning your Torah-observance, piety, and specifically your expertise in the Shulchan Arukh (Code of Jewish Law). Depending on how much you already know and how quickly you learn, this can take anything from six months to several years.
You will be examined concerning your Torah-observance, piety, and specifically your expertise in the Shulchan Arukh (Code of Jewish Law). Depending on how much you already know and how quickly you learn, this can take anything from six months to several years.
Yes, you have to be Jewish to become a Rabbi.
He will often become leader of a synagogue and/or a Jewish community.
Not exactly. Rabbis begin their training after high school.
A man need never become impotent, men can go on fathering children into old age.
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Rabbi Meir Brandsdorfer died on May 13, 2009 at the age of 74.
Rabbi Meir Brandsdorfer died on May 13, 2009 at the age of 74.
Jesus was likely a member of the Jewish sect the Essennes (many of his teachings parallel theirs), and he was a rabbi. To be a rabbi back then, the process is somewhat different than now, but generally one is required to go through a rigorous training process, and one spends a long time as a disciple to other rabbis before they can become a rabbi themselves. It's a matter of training time. Jesus likely spent most of the thirty years as a disciple in training.
Rabbinical student
Yes, in order to use the title of 'Rabbi', a person must receive their 'smicha' through a Jewish religious school (Yeshiva).
Sometimes. Families can have several generations of rabbis. However, there is no requirement that a person come from a family of rabbis to become a rabbi, even in the most traditional movements; nor is there any guarantee that a person born to generations of rabbis will also become a rabbi.
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson died on June 12, 1994 at the age of 92.