Reply To: Calling people with questionable smicha Rabbi

“then I would say that person should go ahead and get smicha already if they deserve it so much.”

What if such a person cannot afford smicha or does not have the time to get smicha because he has a job. Shouldn’t people be encouraged not to get smicha unless they absolutely need to for parnasa or because they are a rav of a community? Wouldn’t this cause the title to be more respected?

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perkey avos 1:10 clearly says it is better not to get smicha if you do not have to. So there goes your argument saying everyone should get smicha. The chafetz chaim and others never got smicha until they had to.

“More generally, people who get smicha through such places aren’t necessarily doing it so they can get a title they don’t deserve or aggrandize themselves. A lot of people either didn’t have the opportunity to go to a regular yeshivah, because they became BTs at a late age or whatever, and simply take the smicha course as a way to challenge themselves”

I am sorry but this is the biggest excuse used in the book. You can’t learn Torah lishma unless you are getting smicha? Please.