April 03, 2008
June 27, 2007
Sure you can walk there, Kohain?
The Vaad HaKohanim has put out articles and maps of places forbidden to Kohanim due to tumas meis (contact with impurity of the dead).It can be found HERE
Labels: cohen, dead, kohain, kohen, Tuma, Tumas Meis, Tumat Meit
June 14, 2007
One Step Closer to Redemption
Reishit HaGez - giving to the Kohain the first cuttings of the fleece of sheep grown in the Land of Israel.Beit El Celebrates Wool-Shearing
(IsraelNN.com) Surrounded by hundreds of happy children, the last of a herd of five sheep had its wool shorn in Beit El Tuesday afternoon - not for profit, but to fulfill a Biblical commandment. Town elders said it was the first time in probably 2,000 years that the commandment had been fulfilled there.The story began several years ago when Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed, the rabbi of Beit El and the dean of the town's yeshiva, began to wonder when he might ever have the chance to fulfill the Biblical commandment (mitzvah) of Reishit HaGez - giving to the Cohen (the priest) the first cuttings of the fleece of sheep grown in the Land of Israel.
(click above for the rest of the story and pictures)
"So after cutting the fleece of one of the sheep and ritually slaughtering it, we are now ready to give these parts, as well as the wool, to a Cohen - and not just any Cohen, but to our great 'teacher and master,' and one who is of undisputed Priestly lineage, the former Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Avraham Kahane-Shapira."
Labels: Beit El, cohen, kohain, Reishis HaGez, Reishit HaGez
May 17, 2007
Kohen Convention

KOHEN– LEVI CONFERENCE
‘THE GATHERING OF THE TRIBE’
Rosh Hodesh Av, 5767 – IY’H - Sunday evening, July 15 - 19, 2007
Labels: BircasKohanim, Birkat Kohanim, cohen, cohen-levy, Jerusalem, kehuna, kohain, kohen, Rabbi Kleiman, Yerushalayim






