Reply To: If you do not have s'micha, can you advertise yourself as "Rabbi"?

Attention Moderators and Moderator Wannabees- (1) you are jumping to conclusions based on your own assumptions and associations. (2) if you were so concerned with lashon hora, the entire yeshivaworld should be shut down. get off the internet, there is lashon hora and nivul around every corner, and (3) if there is no dialog about issues then we take everything as dogma like the Quaran and Hadith. Sorry, this isn’t Islam. You yourself said the mesora is dead- there’s no smicha, so we have to have dialog. On your logic the Gemara should have deleted every “hahoo gavra” because one of Ravina’s chavrusas might associate the “gavra” with someone they knew “oy lashon hora” ! NO.

The point is: I want to talk about the title of Rabbi in today’s halachik culture and I appreciated the responses of people like me who are interested in EMES.