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

[rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com]

[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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