Reply To: Calling people with questionable smicha Rabbi

OneDayAtAtime: I disagree. I bet you 10 to 1 that the person being honored at his yeshiva dinner knows more Torah and has more yiras Hashem than some guy who got a two year smicha. I recently got a call from my roshe yeshiva asking if I wanted to sponsor a certain “Rabbi” of the yeshiva to be honored. This person does not have smicha (I believe after talking with him) because he is content to learn Torah lishma and realizes the dangers of attaining official smicha and the harm in can cause (throughout chazal you see source after source discouraging going into rabbanus unless you have to). He rather sit and learn lishma. He sits and learns in yeshva everyday- all day. When you walk in to the yeshva, there is rarely a time you won’t find him in his seat being osek in Torah before you get there. He also gives shiurim to younger talmidim.