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22.4.21

 Rav Nahman of Breslov mentions often in the LeM the problem with Torah scholars that are demons even though he does not refer to this problem in the same way all the time. For example in LeM vol I:61 he refers to the importance of not granting "semicha" [ordination] to people that are not really proper or prepared. So let's say there would be no such thing. What approach would be possible? Could people just go to any student of Ponovitch or the Mir to ask what the Torah says about such and such a question? I imagine that would  be the best approach.  At least to me this makes sense because in fact when I got to the Mir I was astounded at the high level of learning of even the first year students. My experience has been that almost any student of any of the great Litvak yeshivas tends to have a great grasp of Torah.


[Besides this we already know that "semicha" is  a fraud. Authentic semicha disappeared in the middle of the time of the amoraim.  That is why later amoraim are just known as "Rav" or just their first names. Apparently it continued somewhere into the Talmud period but the farther you go it gets less and less until it is accepted that at the end it simply no longer existed. [Semicha means a continuous granting of authority to teach Torah from Moses on Sinai  down to the middle of the Talmud period.] 

Another point to take into consideration is that Torah ought not be used as a means to make money. So why support that? Better give the same money to the great Litvak yeshivas that learn Torah for its own sake.