[Avodah] Chezkas Kohanim

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:59:17PM -0500, jew at when.com wrote:
: Regardless; if I was a chalal or if I was safek cohen.... who has
: always duchened, then how could the Rabbis use the fact that kohanim
: duchen to prove that they are not safek kohanim or chalalim!?

Doesn't this reverse cause and effect? We allow kohanim to duchen
because we don't posit a safeiq unless we have reason to. That's what
chazaqah means -- we presume that this case follows the rule of thumb.
(Technically that's what the Sheiv Shemaatsa would call a chazaqah
disvara, in distinction to a chazaqah demei'iqara.)

...
: I am interested to know what other Rabbis have to say. I have read
: that this is a common technique that Rabbis will use.

I think it is, but I fail to see your problem with it.

: Though I do not quite understand the last part of your statement and it's relevance. 

You mean this?
:> The Rav in question did not assume every kohein is a safeiq. Rather, he
:> tried to find grounds for creating a specific sefeiq in your case. Both
:> in the kohein's geneology, and in the wife's story about college life.":

If the event didn't happen, despite the wife's recollections otherwise,
then there would be no problem even for a kohein. I understood you
saying that was the LOR's sefeiq sefeiqa:

1- He found a rei'usa in the chazaqa of the husban's kehunah
2- He question whether, even if he were a kohein, if there was really a
   problem being married to this woman.

:-)BBii!
-Micha

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: I come across articles all the time quoting the Rambam saying "In our times, all kohanim have a chazakah"; as if, since it came from the Rambam, the chazakah is good for hundreds of years regardless of other variables- when the Rivash says that all kohanim are safek kohanim only 300 years later. 
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:  -Josh S 
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:-)BBii!
-Micha

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