The status of priest kohen was conferred on Aaron, the brother of Moses, and his sons as an everlasting covenant During the 40 years of wandering in the wilderness and until the Holy Temple was built in Jerusalem, the priests performed their priestly service in the portable Tabernacle (,,,) Their duties involved offering the daily and Jewish holiday sacrifices, and blessing the people in a Priestly Blessing, later also known as Nesiat Kapayim (" Raising of the hands ").

Kohen was a status that traditionally referred to men, passed from father to son, although there were situations where a Bat-Kohen, daughter of a kohen, enjoyed some special status.

Other Conservative rabbis, along with some Reform and Reconstructionist rabbis, are prepared to give equal kohen status to the daughter of a kohen.

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.

A marriage between a female convert and a kohen ( members of the priestly class ) is prohibited and any children of the union do not inherit their father's kohen status.

When the kohen observes the resolution of the tzaraath, he begins a procedure that ultimately reverses the impure status of the metzorah ( Leviticus 14: 4 )

Jewish feminism is a movement that seeks to improve the religious, legal, and social status of women within Judaism and to open up new opportunities for religious experience and leadership for Jewish women.

Jewish feminism is a movement that seeks to improve the religious, legal, and social status of women within Judaism and to open up new opportunities for religious experience and leadership for Jewish women.

While a variety of views regarding homosexuality as an inclination or status exist within the Orthodox Jewish community, Orthodox Judaism generally prohibits homosexual conduct.

Today, Pesach Sheni on the 14th of Iyar has the status of a very minor holiday ( so much so that many of the Jewish people have never even heard of it, and it essentially does not exist outside of Orthodox and traditional Conservative Judaism ).

Judaism accords Shabbat the status of a joyous holy day.

This is all despite the fact that conversion from Judaism and Zoroastrianism is well documented since the 1850s-indeed such a change of status removing legal and social protections.

According to the statement of the Messianic Jewish Rabbinical Council regarding Conversion, converts to Judaism do not in any way have a higher status within Messianic Judaism than the Messianic believers who are considered by the UMJC to still be gentiles who are attached to their communities.

Today kohanim retain a lesser though somewhat distinct status within Judaism, and are bound by additional restrictions according to Orthodox Judaism.

Reform Judaism does not afford any special status or recognition to Kohanim.

Areas where Orthodox approaches may create different results include situations where a woman has been raped, kidnapped or held hostage, descendants of converts whose Judaism status turned out to be subject to doubt, ambiguous prior dating histories, and other potentially ambiguous or difficult situations.

Orthodox Judaism maintains that the privileges and status of kohanim stem primarily from their offerings and activities in the Temple.

" via descent ; matrilineal descent still is the rule within Orthodox Judaism, which also holds that anyone with a Jewish mother has an irrevocable Jewish status, and matrilineal descent is the norm in the Conservative movement.

Halakhic Jewish status ( Jewish status according to Jewish law ) in modern Rabbinic Judaism is determined by an unbroken matrilineal line of descent or by conversion to Judaism.

Jews who adhere to Orthodox or Conservative Rabbinism therefore believe that Jewish status by birth is passed by a Jewish female to her children ( if she herself is a Jew by birth or by conversion to Judaism ) regardless of the Jewish status of the father.

As a group they have no conceivable status in Judaism.

Because Haredi Judaism accords unique status to traditional Jewish thought, while downplaying the need to look to secular disciplines, it seeks theological answers from faithful reinterpretations of Judaism alone.

Edith Stein's ( a German nun who converted from Judaism in 1922 and was killed in Auschwitz ) status as a martyr has been somewhat controversial due to the question of whether she was killed for her faith or ethnicity.

In a mere half-century the South has more than tripled its urban status.

Their dedication to the status quo has been affirmed at the expense of the fascinating but dangerous individualism of a Sherlock Holmes.

But while the corporation has all the disadvantages of the socialist form of organization ( so cumbersome it cannot constructively do much of anything not compatible with its need to perpetuate itself and maintain its status quo ), unluckily it does not have the desirable aspect of socialism, the motivation to operate for the benefit of society as a whole.

For the truth formerly experienced by the community no longer has existential status in the community, nor does any answer elaborated by philosophers or theoriticians.

In this phase of change, no idea has social acceptance and so none has ontological status in the community.

He is the stern guardian of the status quo who has raised the utilitarian structures of the age, and he is the revolutionary poet with a gun in his hand who writes a tragic apologetic to posterity for the men he has killed.

They insisted on the `` fundamental fact '' that `` the whole of Berlin has a quadripartite status ''.

`` U.S. pressure on Britain to foster war hysteria over the status of West Berlin has reached its apogee.

and although we have attempted to provide these status symbols, support of the ' dual-ladder ' plan has been half-hearted despite the creation of a salary potential for a research scientist commensurate with that of men in top managerial positions.

Fundamental to the difficulty of creating the desired prestige is the fact that, in the business community, prestige and status are conferred in proportion to the authority that one man has over others and the extent of which he participates in the management functions ''.

Despite the increasing rate of exogamous marriages, the population has been able to sustain, at least to some degree, the consciousness of its intermediate status in society.

The ceaseless effort to understand and measure the distance mankind has traversed since its primitive anthropological status offers a more durable sort of drama.

The objection will be raised that the most important role of philosophy in relation to social science has been omitted, namely the status of ultimate value questions and norms operative in the social sciences.

At least two private colleges in the Atlanta area now or in the past have had integrated student bodies, but their tax-exempt status never has been challenged by the state.

ANOVA " has long enjoyed the status of being the most used ( some would

At various times in the more than 100 years that have elapsed since the song was written, particularly during the John F. Kennedy administration, there have been efforts to give " America the Beautiful " legal status either as a national hymn, or as a national anthem equal to, or in place of, " The Star-Spangled Banner ", but so far this has not succeeded.

The challenge to the status has focused on the Agnostina partly because juveniles of one genus have been found with legs greatly different from those of adult trilobites, suggesting they are not members of the lamellipedian clade, of which trilobites are a part.

By so strongly validating one role, that of the male citizen, it has been argued that democracy compromised the status of those who did not share it.

English has been given official status by 28 of the 50 state governments.

Although English has no official status in the Constitution, Australian English is Australia's de facto official language and is the first language of the majority of the population.

Winthrop's sermon gave rise to the common belief in American folklore that the United States of America has a special status in the world as God's Country.

Since 1 April 1956, Aalen has the status of Große Kreisstadt (“ major district town ”).

Plate anemometers have been used to trigger high wind alarms on bridges. They are used on these high places because they are in a plate shape ; has a good measurement status on higher altitudes.