[Avodah] kohen in war / pinchas & kehuna

[Eli Turkel]

Igros Moshe (Y.D. II 158): concening a cohen who is a soldier who killed
during war - he is permitted to duchen>>

ROY also permits a cohen who killed in a war to duchen
However, RYBS disagrees. He feels that the prohibition to duchen is not a
punishment and so the fact the killing was legitimate is irrelevant.
It is a psul in the gavra as killing and duchening are opposites
and so independent of the reason for the killing

Note that Pinchas was not a kohen when he killed zimri.

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On another matter I was asked this shabbat why Pinchas was not
included in the original establishment of the kohanim just as his
grandfather, father and uncles were

-- 
Eli Turkel