SACRAMENT OF HOLY ORDERS

IMAM

• Priest in the Islamic Tradition
• No formal ordination

IMAM

• Receive education in Quran
• Serve as apprentice to current mosque leader
• Soon given larger responsibility in mosque and community
• Mosque leaders decide whether candidate may be permanent Imam

IMAM

• Lead worship
• Faces Mecca
• Recites the prayers leads movements which everyone follows

IMAM

• Present at mosque for 5 daily prayers
• Sermon, or khutba, is presented on Fridays
• Leads taraweeh, or nightly prayers during Ramadan
• Leads other special prayers, as for funerals

IMAM

• Counsels during situations
• Leads marriage and visits the sick
• Currently, advise youth against radicalism and violence

COMPARISON

• The matter and form cannot be compared because there in no ordination
• Receive training
• Education is centered on their Holy Book
• Lead worship, prayer, and sermons
• Oversee marriages, visit the sick and advise the community

COMPARISON

• Brings into communion with their god
• Transforms into servant of their god
• Influence and lead spiritual lives of community in service

COMPAISON

• There is no clergy, or hierarchy
• Celibacy is not required, rather marriage is recommended

SEMIKHAH

• Jewish procession for ordination
• Three judges, or learned men, over saw and led this procession
• One man must have formerly received semikhah
• They would lay their hands on the rav, blessing him a rabbi in God's name

SEMIKHAH

• Prior to ordination, referred to as rav
• Once ordained, he is called rabbi

SEMIKHAH

• Yoreh Yoreh, Yadin Yadin,Yatir Bechorot Yatir
• Three degrees of training received

COMPARISON

• There is no matter as the oil used in the Sacrament of Holy Orders
• Rav does receive a laying on of hands in most cases
• Given same responsibility of advising community in law of Torah

COMPARISON

• Degree of knowledge determines duties
• Transforms into servants of God and the community