Eleazar Kalir ( a Hebrew Galilean poet variously dated from the 6th to 10th century ) mentions a locality clearly in the Nazareth region bearing the name Nazareth נצרת ( in this case vocalized " Nitzrat "), which was home to the descendants of the 18th Kohen family Happitzetz ( הפצץ ), for at least several centuries after the Bar Kochva revolt.

In every generation when the Temple was standing, one Kohen would be singled out to perform the functions of the High Priest ( Hebrew kohen gadol ).

A year later the city council addressed to the margrave a report in which a question was raised as to the proportion of municipal charges to be borne by the newly arrived Jews, who in that year formed an organized congregation, with Rabbi Nathan Uri Kohen of Metz at its head.

The Great Sanhedrin was made up of a Chief / Prince / Leader called Nasi ( at some times this position may have been held by the Kohen Gadol or the High Priest ), a vice chief justice ( Av Beit Din ), and sixty-nine general members.

Judah Maccabee ( or Judas Maccabeus, also spelled Machabeus, or Maccabaeus, Hebrew: יהודה המכבי, Y ' hudhah HamMakabi, Judah the Hammer ) was a Kohen and a son of the Jewish priest Mattathias.

' Ukba is mentioned as exilarch immediately following Hasdai II ; he was deposed at the instigation of Kohen Zedek, gaon of Pumbedita, but was reinstated in 918 on account of some Arabic verses with which he greeted the calif Al-Muktadir.

After a short interregnum ' Ukba's nephew, David ben Zakkai, became exilarch ; but he had to contend for nearly two years with Kohen Zedek before he was finally confirmed in his power ( 921 ).

It is theorized that the dye was the same dye as that which featured prominently in the ancient Temple in Jerusalem, the clothing of the High Priest ( or Kohen Gadol ) officiating there ; it is sometimes still used by Jews today in the ritual fringes ( tzitzit ) on four-cornered garments.

In ancient Israel, the Kohen Gadol ( High Priest ) wore a headdress called the Mitznefet ( Hebrew: מצנפת, often translated into English as " mitre "), which was wound around the head so as to form a broad, flat-topped turban.

Nachman Kohen Krochmal ( born in Brody, Galicia, on 17 February 1785 ; died at Ternopil on 31 July 1840 ) was a Jewish Galician philosopher, theologian, and historian.

Sir John Edward Cohen ( 6 October 1898 – 24 March 1979 ), born Jacob Edward Kohen and commonly known as Jack Cohen, was a British businessman who founded the Tesco supermarket chain.

He was born in Chatham in the Medway area of Kent, to a Jewish family, the son of an Avram Kohen, a Polish immigrant who worked as a tailor, and his first wife, Sime Zamremb.

Eleazar ( or Elazar ; pronounced ), () was a priest in the Hebrew Bible, the second Kohen Gadol ( High Priest )-succeeding his father Aaron.

He was a kohen, and is therefore often referred to as Meir Simcha ha-Kohen (" Meir Simcha the Kohen ").

Dr. Karl Skorecki, a Canadian nephrologist of Ashkenazi parentage, noticed that a Sephardic fellow-congregant who was a Kohen like himself had completely different physical features.

Once Rabbi Tzvi Hirsh told his brother Rabbi Moshe of Sambor that in one of his " previous lives " he was Rabbi Yishmael Kohen Gadol ( one of a series of high priests of the Second Temple, famous for his mystical visions recorded both in the Talmud and in the corpus known as Sifrei Heichalot-literature of the heavenly palaces ).

In some cases, where the male parent was a Kohen ( a member of the priestly lineage of Aaron ) there is a related category called chalal.

It was sold to the National Museum in Sarajevo in 1894 by a man named Joseph Kohen.

This movie was scheduled be followed by the other two film-adaptations of Chitrochor and Kohen Kobi Kalidas.

The first and most important, was composed of eleven men, listed in this order: Hayyim Vital, Jonathan Sagis, Joseph Arzin, Isaac Kohen, Gedaliah ha-Levi, Samuel Uceda, Judah Mishan, Abraham Gavriel, Shabbatai Menashe, Joseph ibn Tabul, and Elijah Falko ( or Falkon ).

Because most Reform and Reconstructionist temples have abolished traditional tribal distinctions, roles, and identities on grounds of egalitarianism, a special status for a bat Kohen has very little significance in these movements.

Since the religious status of a Kohen is contingent upon being the male biological descendant of Aaron in conjunction with numerous other variables that are not subject to genetic testing ( the wife of a kohen cannot have had relations with a non-Jew, be a divorcee etc.

) the possession of a common haplotype does not provide sufficient evidence to confer or maintain the religious status of a Kohen, which depends on more than simple heredity.

* The status quo Kohen

The marriage to a divorcée cost Feivel Adler ( and therefore Jacob Adler ) his status as a Kohen ( priest ).

According to Omeljan Pritsak, this name indicates that non-Israelite Khazars adopted the status of Kohen, possibly because they had formed a pre-conversion priestly caste.

A variety of liturgical poems are added, including a poem recounting the radiance of the countenance of the Kohen Gadol after exiting the Holy of Holies, traditionally believed to emit palpable light in a manner echoing the Torah's account of the countenance of Moses after descending from Mount Sinai, as well as prayers for the speedy rebuilding of the Temple and the restoration of sacrificial worship.

* Aleph Kohen Godol ( parliamentarian ), a position traditionally filled by, but not limited to, the immediate past Aleph Godol

The commentators to the Shulchan Aruch record that it is the custom of some of Diaspora Jewry to be scrupulous in giving Challah from the dough used for baking " Matzot Mitzvah " ( the Shmurah Matzah eaten during Passover ) to a Kohen child to eat.

The Talmud expounds a Beraita ( oral tradition ) which illuminates the manner in which the Kohen Gadol ( High Priest ) is to sprinkle the blood of the bull-offering towards the Parochet ( Curtain ) separating the Hekhal ( sanctuary ) from the Kodesh Hakodashim ( Holy of Holies ):

The father of the child must " redeem " the child from a known Kohen representing the original Temple priesthood, for the sum of five silver Shekels, or equivalent in country's currency ( if it has silver currency of the correct weight ).

A Kohen may become disqualified from performing his service for a host of reasons, including-but not limited to-Tumah, Marital defilements, and Physical blemishes.

Of importance is that the Kohen is never permanently disqualified from service but is permitted to return to his normal duties once the disqualification ceases.

An example of the gifts given to the Kohen in the Diaspora are most notably the five coins of the Pidyon haben ceremony, and the Giving of the foreleg, cheeks and abomasum from each Kosher-slaughtered animal.

According to Abraham Geiger, the Sadducee sect of Judaism drew their name from Tzadok, the first Kohen Gadol to serve in The First Temple with the leaders of the sect proposed as the Kohanim ( priestly ) sons of Tzadok.

When the ' Kohen ' and ' Levi ' have finished reading, the leader in prayer carries the Torah roll to the exilarch, the whole congregation rising ; the exilarch takes the roll in his hands and reads from it while standing.

His pupil Menachem Mendel Zaks published Meshech Chochma (" The Price of Wisdom ", Meshech is the acronym of Meir Simcha Kohen, and the words derive from Job 28: 18 ), which contains novellae on the Torah, but very often branches off into questions of Jewish philosophy.

About this period the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, the last of the Hohenstaufen, employed Jews to translate from the Arabic philosophical and astronomical treatises ; among these writers were Judah Kohen of Toledo, later of Tuscany, and Jacob Anatoli of Provence.

The verse itself indicates this, as it directs those who find themselves afflicted to seek out a Kohen ( priest ) and not a doctor, while the Torah specifically permits and even encourages those who are in need of medical care to seek treatment from physicians.

The procedure does not apply when the father is a Kohen or Levite, and does not normally apply when the mother is the daughter of one.

According to some authorities, however, a child whose mother is a Bat Kohen and whose father is a non-Jew requires a Pidyon HaBen ceremony.

In the traditional ceremony, the father brings the child to the Kohen and recites a formula, or responds to ritual questions, indicating that this is the Israelite mother's firstborn son and he has come to redeem him as commanded in the Torah.

The Kohen asks the father which he would rather have, the child or the five silver shekels which he must pay.