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From: martillo@ihuxt.UUCP (Yehoyaqim Martillo)
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Subject: Re: Smikha
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Date: Wed, 16-May-84 11:32:51 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 16 11:32:51 1984
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Because genuine ordination no longer exists, Sefardic and Oriental Jews
have tended to avoid the titles Rab or Rabbi and have preferred to use
Hakham or Mori.  I recommend this practice become general among observant
Jews because certain malevolent beings in the name of fraudulent versions
of Judaism (known as Reform, Reconstructionist, Conservative, Humanist or
Liberal) have pre-empted the titles Rab and Rabbi.