תלמוד על עדיות 8:7

Rebbi Joḥanan said, one does not investigate a family in which a family disqualification²⁰⁴Either a disqualification of bastardy or a disqualification for the priesthood. has disappeared. Rebbi Simeon ben Laqish said, a Mishnah says so: “There was a family in Bet Ṣerifa in Transjordan who was forcibly distanced by Ben Ṣion. Another [family] was there who was forcibly integrated by Ben Ṣion.²⁰⁵Mishnah Idiut 8:7. It is not known who this Ben Ṣion was. The text states that one family was deemed unworthy of marrying into priesthood against the will of the rabbis and one was declared worthy also against the will of the rabbis. Cf. Babli Qiddushin 70a.” Nevertheless, the Sages did not want to make their names public²⁰⁶This proves R. Joḥanan’s point that one may not investigate accepted families for disqualifications.. But the Sages transmit them to their sons and students two times in a Week²⁰⁷A sabbatical period of 7 years.. Rebbi Joḥanan said, by the Temple service, I know them²⁰⁸Reading אני for the ms. איני; following the editio princeps. Another formulation of the same statement in the Babli, Qiddushin 70a. and the leading personalities of the generation have disappeared in them. Rebbi Joshua ben Levi said, Pashḥur ben Immer the priest had 5000 slaves²⁰⁹4000 in the Babli, Qiddushin 70a. Cf. Jer. 20:1., and their traces have disappeared in the high priesthood. These are the insolent in the priesthood. Rebbi Eleazar said, their main training²¹⁰In modern Hebrew טִירוֹנוּת, from Latin tiro “recruit”, cf. Ma‘aser Šeni p. 214. The verse, Hos. 4:4, proves that priest were quarrelsome long before Jeremiah’s time and strong-armed behavior is ingrained in Cohanim even without any admixture of slaves. The same argument by R. Eleazar in the Bablim Qiddushin 69b.: “Your people is like quarrelsome priests.” Rebbi Abbahu said, Samaritans²¹¹Who might be bastards in the rabbinic view; cf. Chapter 4, Note 82. disappeared in thirteen villages in the times of persecution. They said, the village of Moshhan²¹²The village and the time of persecution are not identified. is one of them.