I have decided to lay my Jewish ordinations aside. From now on I am using my original internet handle: John of AllFaith. Among my reasons are the following:

• The widespread religious bigotry against non-Jews of large segments of the rabbinate
• The amount of infighting between the Jewish movements and the rejection of so many Jews, including converts.
• The stark similarities between the modern Rabbinate and those of the first century that led to the destruction of the Second Temple.
• The fact that there is no biblical nor historic evidence that their claimed "Great Assembly" (knesset hagedolah) under Prophet Ezra ever happened. It is this claim that supposedly established Pharisee/Rabbinic authority.
• The Rabbinic replacement of the Written Torah with the Oral commentary written in the 3rd to 5th centuries CE.

I am open to discussing this with those sincerely interested.

Most of my presentations included YouTube videos. The Globalists at YouTube cancelled my account and removed thousands of my videos. I am gradually removing the dead video players from the site, but there are a LOT of them. Due to my preference for basic HTML over programmed methods, this process will take a considerable amount of time (and may never be completed). I now stream my Zoom videos through Rumble and invite you to join me there.

There are three types of smicha/semikhah (ordination) issued:

Yoreh Yoreh

The recipient of this smicha has demonstrated sufficient education and proper judgment to be able to render halachic judgments on matters of religious law as it pertains to daily life such as kashrut, nidda, and permissible or forbidden activities on Shabbat and/or Jewish festivals or Yamim Tovim

Yadin Yadin

The recipient of this smicha has demonstrated sufficient education and proper judgment to be able to render halachic judgments on matters of religious law as it pertains to monetary and property disputes.

Yatir Bechorot Yatir

The recipient of this semikhah has demonstrated sufficient education and proper judgment to determine the ritual status of firstborn animals that have developed a blemish. This degree required extensive veterinary knowledge. While the first two classes are still issued today, this last one is not.

* Rabbi Shlomo Nachman © September 05, 2019
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