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A priest (?) who stopped holding his hands and blessing his people Israel with love. More than a divorce?

שו”תCategory: HalachaA priest (?) who stopped holding his hands and blessing his people Israel with love. More than a divorce?
asked 2 years ago

A priest who stopped raising his hands and blessing his people Israel with love and claimed that he was not a priest.
For we do not have priests of testimony, only priests of power.
And from today on, he holds himself out to Israel as a minister and not a priest.
Is it allowed for a divorced woman? Can she work in a cheva kadisha?


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מיכי Staff answered 2 years ago
I didn’t understand the question. Does he have any additional information about himself or does he just not trust his assumptions? If this is a halakhic claim, in my opinion it is clear that he is forbidden from having a divorced wife and is forbidden from defilement with the dead.

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לא כהן ולא בטיח replied 2 years ago

Sometime somehow somewhere one of his ancestors was ‘held’ as a priest
It was profitable because they gave money to redeem the son for free aliyah to the Torah
Maybe they also honored him and gave him a place in the synagogue without payment
Maybe they also thought that they would soon immigrate to the Land of Israel and give him challah and donations and tithes and they lived in poverty and fairly constant hunger conditions there was an interest in holding such privileges
And then they were ‘held’
Maybe they were probably the peoples of the lands and some (most of them) did not know how to read and write.
Not that this specific priest knows anything specific but a reasonable assumption that this was the situation of most Jews in previous centuries.
We have no evidence, we have privileges
Why would today limit himself because of those ‘privileges’?
In his opinion, they are as credible as anyone who claimed something and therefore earned a little better living and received respect a little above
he and nothing more.

And now 5 Rocks doesn't really enrich him
and wants to marry a divorcee and shouts why and how is he different from all the Israelis around him?
This ’strong’ is not serious and not credible
and he has the right not to believe it.

לא כהן ולא בטיח replied 2 years ago

There is ‘evidence’ that a divorced woman in the past is probably because he found something shameful in her or something else terrible, and it is despicable that a priest who is respected would marry her
But really, there are many who get divorced for a variety of reasons, not necessarily because he found something shameful in her or in the area
And it is not at all despicable to be divorced, but rather another possible and legitimate status
In any case, is there no prohibition on a divorced woman?
So, did she get divorced because he found something shameful in her?

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