Midrash Tanchuma expounds that what led Korach to cast doubts as to the prophecy of Moshe, was his envy of the high office ...

Priest, Levite and Samaritan. Michael Asciak Sunday, 22 September 2019, 09:29 Last update: about 4 years ago. In the parable of the Good Samaritan there is a man laid waste by thieves who lies on ...

The tribe of Levi had another important role – to encourage the fighters of Israel. For this purpose, in addition to the High Priest who was responsible for the Temple service, they would anoint ...

A team of geneticists studying the ancestry of Jewish communities has found an unusual genetic signature that occurs in more than half the Levites of European descent. The gene is thought to have ...

A Priest, a Levite, and a Samaritan Walk into a Bar Two Views on Loving Our Neighbor in the Twenty-first Century with Shane Claiborne and Peter Greer ...

The Priest attempts to make the ritual world a microcosm of the orderly universe—while defending it from quarrels among the Aaronite priests, tensions with the Levite priests, lack of spiritual ...

From the blog of Ben-Tzion Spitz at The Times of Israel ...

Before serving, each priest was ceremonially cleansed by immersion in the Brass Sea, a huge baptismal font holding about 24,000 gallons of water. Then, he was given a white linen robe to wear in ...

The priest of Aaron and the Levites was temporary and provisional. Hebrews tells us, “…it was not Christ who glorified himself in becoming high priest, ...