Reply To: Calling people with questionable smicha Rabbi

ari-free: “See Sanhedrin 5b. There are 3 classes of semicha. Yoreh Yoreh (can rule on issur/heter), Yadin Yadin (can rule on monetary law) and Yatir Bechoros Yatir (can deal with korbonos issues)”

The smicha the gemerah was referring has not existed since the 5th century.

goldtoes68: “You still would call a Catholic Priest, father or a protestant minister, Reverend.”

You are really using that to make your point after reading this thread? I suppose you would refer to Jesus as Jesus C. as well because that is a form of respect and is the way he is called in those circles. Did the gemerah refer to a typical sadducee as “Rabbi Sadducee so and so”?

There are many halachic issues with calling a priest father. There was even just a book published “Why Priests?: A Failed Tradition”.

I don’t know if you are being sarcastic or not but thank you for making that point though.