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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 ...
Law concerning women suspected of adultery (Numbers 5:11-31) Law of the "Little Passover" (Numbers 9:9-14) Laws concerning the duties and revenue of priests and Levites (Numbers 18) Law concerning the daughters of Zelophehad and inheritance (Numbers 27:1-11) Law concerning oaths (Numbers 30) The giving of 48 cities to the Levits (Numbers 35:1-8)
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Priests were expected to function as judges (Deuteronomy 21:5); the absence of a priest who could teach was described as a national misfortune (2 Chronicles 15:3). The priest's authority to teach is not automatic, but depends on his having a thorough knowledge of Torah law as well as priestly ancestry.
Deuteronomy 17:9 provides for the referral of a particularly difficult legal case to "the Levite priests, or the judge who will be present in those days". In Deuteronomy 31:9 the priests are entrusted with care of the Torah scroll. Deuteronomy 33:10 lists teaching God's laws as a core task of the tribe of Levi (to which the priests belong).
The Jewish population of around 14,200 in the region [7] is served by five synagogues. Most Jewish families emigrated from Eastern Europe at the start of the 20th century; around 800 Soviet Jews have moved to Louisville since 1991. [8] Jewish immigrants founded Jewish Hospital in what was once the center of the city's Jewish district.
Bekhor Shor explained that it was the desire of God that the priesthood rest with one specific family in order that the father of the household instill in his children the duties of the priesthood, and have his children exposed to those ideas, as a family way of life, from birth and throughout life, in order to be successful at their priestly ...
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 ...