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  2. Priestly Code - Wikipedia

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    The laws typically ascribed to this supposed author are either started by a phrase such as this is the law of..., as is the case, for example, with Numbers 19:14-22; or end with a colophon of the form this is the law of [subject A], [summary of the law concerning subject A], [subject B], [summary of the law concerning subject B], ..., as is the ...

  3. Priestly divisions - Wikipedia

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    Following the Temple's destruction at the end of the First Jewish–Roman War and the displacement to the Galilee of the bulk of the remaining Jewish population in Judea at the end of the Bar Kochba 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 ...

  4. Presumption of priestly descent - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. List of disqualifications for the Jewish priesthood - Wikipedia

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    A born-Jewish woman who has had premarital relations may marry a kohen only if all of her partners were Jewish. The daughter of a Jewish mother and non-Jewish father, while halakhically Jewish, is prohibited from marrying a kohen according to the Shulchan Aruch, reiterated by Rav Moshe Feinstein. Due to a small doubt about this in the Talmud ...

  6. Priestly court - Wikipedia

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    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".

  7. Herem (priestly gift) - Wikipedia

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    This law is one of the twenty-four kohanic gifts and, of those twenty-four, as one of ten gifts given to the priest even outside the land of Israel. [ 2 ] According to Abba Jose ben Hanan , the nuances of the herem laws (as well as laws of hekdesh and arakhin , and five other categories of laws) are considered "eight pillars of Torah law " that ...

  8. Tumah and taharah - Wikipedia

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    In Jewish religious law, there is a category of specific Jewish purity laws, defining what is ritually impure or pure: ṭum'ah (Hebrew: טומאה, pronounced) and ṭaharah (Hebrew: טהרה, pronounced) are the state of being ritually "impure" and "pure", respectively.

  9. Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom - Wikipedia

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    The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom was drafted in 1777 by Thomas Jefferson in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and introduced into the Virginia General Assembly in Richmond in 1779. [1] On January 16, 1786, the Assembly enacted the statute into the state's law.