[Avodah] Fwd: Why was the Hanukkah Revolution led Specifically by Kohanim?

[Micha Berger]

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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:45:06 +0000
From: rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com
Subject: Why was the Hanukkah Revolution led Specifically by Kohanim?
To: avodah at aishdas.org

[Note: I might have posted this in years gone by...]

Q: Why was the Hanukkah Revolution led specifically by Kohanim?

As per my chaveir R. Joel Stern:
A: Because of the gzeira of "tibo'eil lehgmon". For Yisroelim and Leviim
This was bad - but survivable

For Kohanim it meant that every wife would thereby become a "zona-hallah"
[even an anussah] and in a single generation the k'hunah would have been
history. Hence the sense of urgency - davka for Kohanim.

Gutn Hanukkah
RRW
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