The check books of sixty candidates for Rabbinic ordination have been misplaced throughout the marking course of following a check on the Jewish legal guidelines of marriage.
Within the months that adopted, the candidates claimed they’d not obtained their grades, and the matter dragged into a chronic saga of searches and negotiations among the many numerous events.
The problem was delivered to Rabbi Kalman Bar, the Chief Rabbi of Israel, who proposed a number of choices, together with an oral examination and passing all candidates, however these proposals didn’t move authorized scrutiny.
Lastly, after discussions within the Municipal Rabbis Committee chaired by Rabbi Yaakov Shapira and authorized session, an official letter was despatched to the candidates from the Rabbinate’s Examinations Division, stating {that a} retake examination had been scheduled, for free of charge: “Following the exams through which you have been examined on legal guidelines of marriage, we want to inform you that because of a malfunction within the transportation of the examination notebooks we have been unable to finish the grading course of as required.”
“After in depth discussions within the Municipal Rabbis Committee and the authorized workplace of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, it was determined to summon the candidates for a retake examination, with understanding and consideration that the earlier examination was held a couple of 12 months in the past.”
