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

So based on all the opinions above it seems that (1) there is no real smicha anymore; Rabbanus is conferred on someone who demonstrated sufficient knowledge to disseminate torah and halachik opinions (2) the title of Rabbi is not in fact a technical term and can be used to describe anyone who is accepted as qualified for a position of disseminating torah.

Now, based on that, if it stam a word used, then why would the gedolim release a kol korei, banning the word to describe a woman? EITHER IT IS A TECHNICAL TERM OR IT IS NOT. The moetzes, in their psak halacha that a woman cannot be called Rabbi because there is no smicha for a woman AFFIRM that the term IS a technical, smicha related word. So, if we do abide by their psak halacha we should not call anyone who does not have smicha “RAV”. And if you want to call anyone without smicha Rabbi, then you are not abiding by the moetzes’ psak halacha and you shouldn’t have a problem calling a woman, “Rabbi” or “Rabbah”.