{"id":45718,"date":"2018-12-15T19:35:35","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T17:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=45718"},"modified":"2022-07-08T16:49:39","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T13:49:39","slug":"sanctity-and-privilege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/sanctity-and-privilege\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanctity And Privilege"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[480,771,631,354],"acf":{"old_id":"45718","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33923,"related_cahpter":"111","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"How do we understand the honor given to priests?","content":"<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first choice of portion to take<\/span><\/em><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Torah\u2019s instructions concerning the role of a priest conclude with the words, addressed to the people at large, \u201cand you shall hold him sacred\u201d (Lev. 21:8). Rabbi Yishmael explains this to mean that priests must be given honor and precedence over others (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Horayot <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">12b); this idea forms the basis for honoring a priest with the first <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>aliya<\/em> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to the Torah in the synagogue (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Megilla <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">28a, although see also <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gittin <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">59a\u2013b), and for inviting him to lead Birkat HaMazon (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shul\u0125an Arukh OH<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 201:2)..<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Talmud (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Horayot <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">12b) applies this rule more broadly, wherever people are differently ranked in sanctity. Thus, the High Priest, who has a higher level of sanctity than a regular priest, is accorded precedence over his fellows. He may therefore choose his portion of an offering even before the priest who brought it (Rashi, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Horayot <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">12b).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An extreme example of the High Priest\u2019s privilege is in the division of the showbread; he automatically receives half of the bread, while the other half is divided up among the other priests. The <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tosefta<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (1:5) derives this practice from the verse (Lev. 2:10) \u201cfor Aaron and his sons\u201d which presents Aaron \u2013 the original High Priest \u2013 on equal footing with the collective group of all his sons \u2013 the lay priests. This privilege, however, is limited to the inner world of\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the Temple. With regard to tithes and other consecrated items, which need not be brought to the Temple, all priests, including the High Priest, share equal rights (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tosefta <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ibid; Rambam, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hilkhot Klei HaMikdash <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5:12).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Excerpted from the <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Koren Yom Kippur Machzor<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br 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