Kohanim
How a Biblical Blessing can Change the Lives of your Children and Grandchildren
What is the power of a blessing? Can I really improve the lives of the people I love by blessing them? Though prayer and blessings are critically important to both Judaism and Christianity, there are surprisingly few formal prayers...
Why is a Blemished Priest Disqualified from Temple Service?
After designating the descendants of Aaron as the kohanim (priests) in perpetuity, the Torah then delineates specific physical blemishes that disqualified, either temporarily or permanently, individual kohanim. Just as animals brought to...
Why Are There Limitations Regarding Who a Priest Can Marry?
Until the Exodus from Egypt, the patriarchs had an individual relationship with God, bringing sacrifices wherever and whenever they felt the calling. But when God brought the Children of Israel out of Egypt, what had been a clan, a loose...
Why Was Aaron Chosen to be the High Preist?
When Aaron and his sons were anointed in order to begin serving in the Tabernacle, it transformed their descendants for all time, establishing them as Kohanim (priests) and the only people to perform the Temple service. It should be...
Experience Sukkot’s Priestly Blessing
I have always taken great pride in my family tradition, passed along from father to son for countless generations, that I am a ‘Kohen,” a direct descendant of Aaron the High Priest. Every morning at the synagogue, I have the cherished...
