Today’s Smicha Ceremony

(You can watch the ceremony live by clicking here.)

Arrival:
The Smicha Ceremony is Sunday, Jan. 10th at 4pm Pacific, 5pm Mountain, 6pm Central, 7pm Eastern and 11am (Monday) Australian Eastern. Please arrive early.

As You Arrive:
Slideshow of the 2021 musmachimot (ordinees).

Processional:
Arrival of the musmachimot.

Welcome:
Rabbi Shir Yaakov Feit

Words of Torah:
Erev Rav Charna Rosenholtz
Erev Rav Carl Woolf
Erev Hazzan Sharon McCord

Remembering Rabbi Dr. Sarah Tauber
“Carl’s Niggun:” A Musical Tribute to Rabbi Tauber
Introduced by Erev Hazzan Sharon McCord

Words of Torah:
Erev Rabbinic Pastor Chaya Lerner
Erev Rav Sharona Grinsteiner
Erev Hazzan Steve Margolin
Erev Rav George Mordecai

Hallel Psalms for Smicha
Composed by Erev Hazzan Sharon McCord.
Performed by Erev Hazzanimot Sharon McCord, Steve Margolin and Stephanie Weishaar

Words of Torah:
Erev Rav Lex Rofeberg
Erev Hazzan Stephanie Weishaar
Erev Rav Irwin Keller

Presentation of our Lineage:
Rabbi Daniel Siegel

Invocation:
Rabbi Marcia Prager

Conferral of Smicha:
ALEPH Ordination Program Va’ad and Special Guests

Birkat Cohanim – The Priestly Blessing:

Hazzan Jack Kessler

Recessional

Vocabulary. Musmachimot is a non-binary Hebrew word for “ordinees” or those receiving a “laying of hands.” Erev means “evening” or “eve of.” In ALEPH when you are at the “eve of” your rabbinate, you are affectionately called Erev Rav, etc. Rav means “rabbi.” Hazzan means “cantor.”