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However, these children, are termed Chalal ("disqualified") and do not possess Kohen status. However, the children born of the union of a Kohen married to the daughter of a non Jewish father are not disqualified, as the prohibition is considered a "Safek Pagum", (doubtful blemish). The high priest may marry a virgin only.
The later books of the Bible describe the use of lineage documents to prove priestly descent, [6] along with other recordings of lineage. [7]The Talmud gives little information regarding the content and form of the lineage document, in contrast to other Rabbinic documents that are described in greater length (for example the Ketubah, Get, business documents (Shtarei Kinyan), and the document ...
Law concerning the consumption of dead animals, fat, blood, and the portion due to the priest (Leviticus 7:22-38) Law concerning inappropriate behaviour for priests (Leviticus 10:6-15) List of clean and unclean animals (Leviticus 11) Laws of purification and atonement (Leviticus 12, Leviticus 13, and Leviticus 15) Laws interpreting the Holiness ...
List of disqualifications for the Jewish priesthood; List of high priests of Israel; M. Maaleh Ashan; P. Presumption of priestly descent; Priestly Blessing; Priestly ...
Jewish priests are first mentioned in Exodus 19. Here God offered the entire Jewish people the opportunity to become a symbolic "kingdom of priests and a holy nation". [15] More practically, though, in this chapter "the priests who approach the Lord" were warned to stay away from Mount Sinai during the revelation of the Ten Commandments. [16]
This article gives a list of the high priests (Kohen Gadol) of ancient Israel up to the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 AD. Because of a lack of historical data, this list is incomplete and there may be gaps. A traditional list of the Jewish High Priests. The High Priests, like all Jewish priests, belonged to the Aaronic line.
Following the Temple's destruction at the end of the First Jewish Revolt and the displacement to the Galilee of the bulk of the remaining Jewish population in Judea at the end of the Bar Kochva Revolt, Jewish tradition in the Talmud and poems from the period record that the descendants of each priestly watch established a separate residential seat in towns and villages of the Galilee, and ...
The priestly court is not mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.According to the Sifrei, it is hinted to in Numbers 18:7 ("Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest's office for every thing of the altar, and within the veil..."); the Sifrei explains that "There was a place behind the veil where they would check priestly lineage".