tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20173285.post2440693395577491908..comments2024-03-28T21:21:02.777-04:00Comments on Divrei Chaim: tumas kohanimChaim B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02231811394447584320noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20173285.post-29767258476726207622019-05-16T13:59:43.296-04:002019-05-16T13:59:43.296-04:00"Why here does the Torah place the mother fir..."Why here does the Torah place the mother first?"<br /><br />could the sevara at Shemos 20:12 be something of a clue? honor your father and mother so that you live long on the land that Hashem is giving you-- giving you Yisraelim, but not to you Kohanim; maybe a kohen, unlike a Yisrael (Kiddushin 31a) naturally honors his father more than his mother because the former conferred the kahuna upon him, such that the pasuk here (21:2) puts the duty to mother first? pasuk 21:11 reverts to the normal honor roll, since the kohen gadol does not act in that case*<br /><br />*a second sevara at 21:11-- 21:10 speaks first of head (anointing oil) and then skin (garments): given that the father gave the moach and the mother the skin (Nidda 31a) of the kohen gadol, 21:11 states father than mother...alonzo maccabihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13177738305527364094noreply@blogger.com