[Avodah] Kehunat Shem

[Zev Sero]

On 14/08/2011 1:53 PM, Ilana Koehler wrote:
> Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 10:13:43 -0400
> From: Zev Sero<zev at sero.name>
>> On 8/08/2011 6:41 AM, Ilana Koehler wrote:
>>> How did Abraham get the Kehuna from Shem?
>
>> He didn't.  Where did you see that Avraham was ever a kohen?
>
> Answer:  Nedarim 32b; Tehilim 110.

The gemara says that the right to be the ancestor of the tribe of
kohanim was taken away from Shem and given to Avraham; it doesn't
say Shem was no longer a kohen, or that Avraham was one.  After all,
it was *after* this bracha that Avraham gave maaser to Shem, so he
must still have been a kohen.


> Did Shem sin with the beracha?
> If so, how?
> Where?
> Why?
> When?

Huh?  The gemara says what the sin was: blessing Avraham before Hashem.


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