could I get an opinion?

[Brian Vita]

My point was that very often in the media I've seen someone identified as
being either a "student of" or an "expert on" a field.  Closer examination
of the person's credentials sometimes reveals that they're only peripherally
involved with whatever they've been marked as an authority on.

Brian

> In Israel as in America, there are seminaries that are supervised by
> the Orthodox or Hasidic board of rabbis. (The best example of this in
> America is New York's Yeshiva University, but in various parts of NY,
> there are also smaller seminaries, which are under the supervision of
> a rabbinical council)  To get in, you have to take a test, be
> formally admitted, pass your courses, etc.  They are very stringent
> at most seminaries, whether Catholic or Protestant or Jewish.  Just
> reading the Bible doesn't get a person admitted.
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