_Horayoth_, fol. 12, col. 1.
A learned man who is of illegitimate birth is preferable to an ignorant
priest.
Ibid., fol. 13, col. 1.
A priest who makes no confession during service has no part in the
priesthood. (He forfeits his emoluments.)
_Menachoth_, fol. 18, col. 2.
The bald-headed, the dwarfed, and the blear-eyed are ineligible for the
priesthood.
_Bechoroth_, fol. 43, col. 2.
Rav Chisda says, "The portions that fall to the priests are not to be
eaten except roasted and that with mustard," because Scripture says
(Num. xviii. 8), "by reason of the anointing," i.e., by way of
distinction, for only kings (who, of course, are anointed) eat roast
meat with mustard.
_Chullin_, fol. 132, col. 2.
If a case of mistaken identity should occur between the child of a
priestess and the child of her female slave, so that the one cannot be
distinguished from the other, they both are to eat of the heave-offering
and to receive one share from the threshing-floor. When grown up, each
is to set the other free.
_Gittin_, fol. 42, col. 2.
From the old clothes of the priests the wicks were made for the lamps in
the Temple.
_Shabbath_, fol. 21, col. 1.
Scripture authority is given in proof that the very garments possessed
the faculty of making atonement for sin every whit as effectually as
animal sacrifices.
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