Kehunah: Beyond the Laws

How Avraham 'Earned' the Kehunah for his Descendants

The Kohen sits at the head: Moed Katan 28b

Kohanim are considered to be extra-careful [zerizin] in their Mitzvot: Shabbat 114b; Eruvin 103a; Pesachim 36a, 37a, 59b, 65a; Zevachim 35a

The Kohanim's special "care" [above] implies speed, but not necessarily physical caution: Pesachim 65a; Zevachim 35a

Considering Kohanim to be combative people: Shabbat 149b

The Rabbis made an edict for Automatic Impurity of the Hands for Offerings brought with improper intent and late offerings, because of fear of lazy Kohanim, or suspicion of the Kohanim: Pesachim 120b-121a

The Torah gave Kohanim extra sanctity: Temurah 4b

The Kohanim as the emissaries of the rest of the Jews, or of Gd: Nedarim 35b-36a; Kiddushin 23b

A Kohen shouldn't marry off his daughter to a regular Jew, unless the regular Jew is a Torah Scholar: Pesachim 49a

Source for separating Kohanim, as a family, from the Levites: Pesachim 104a

Better to work for a living rather than be supported for one's status as a Kohen: Pesachim 113a



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