Kohen (Hebrew: כֹּהֵן, kōhēn, [koˈ(h)en], "priest", pl. כֹּהֲנִים, kōhănīm, [koˈ(h)anim], "priests") is the Hebrew word for "priest", used in reference...
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A bat-kohen or bat kohen (Hebrew: בת כהן) is the daughter of a kohen (Jewish priest), who holds a special status in the Hebrew Bible and rabbinical texts...
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High Priest of Israel (redirect from Kohen ha-Gadol)
In Judaism, the High Priest of Israel (Hebrew: כהן גדול, romanized: Kohen Gadol, lit. 'great priest'; Aramaic: Kahana Rabba) was the head of the Israelite...
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Natalia Kohen (1919–2022) was an Argentine artist and writer. She was born in Mendoza and studied in Buenos Aires. Over a very long career, she held numerous...
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Pidyon haben (section Bat Kohen)
with money. The redemption is attained by paying five silver coins to a kohen (a patrilineal descendant of the priestly family of Aaron), on behalf of...
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Azra "Akilah" Kohen (born 1979) is a Turkish record-breaking author. After releasing her first novel, Fi, under the name Akilah, she started to release...
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Abiathar Crescas (redirect from Abiathar ibn Crescas ha-Kohen)
blind before the surgeries. Crescas was a leader of Aragon's Jewish community. "CRESCAS, ABIATHARIBN, HA-KOHEN". Jewish Encyclopedia. v t e v t e v t e...
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The prohibition of Kohen defilement to the dead is the commandment to a Jewish priest (kohen) not to come in direct contact with, or be in the same enclosed...
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Priestly sash (redirect from Avnet (kohen))
vestments, the ends of the Avnet are shown in red hanging at his feet. The kohen on one knee beside him is wearing the avnet wound around his waist....
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Rabbi Bension Kohen or haKohen (Hebrew: בֶּנְצִיּוֹן הַכֹּהֵן; born in Djerba, Tunisia, died 1999 in Jerusalem) was a writer of literature on Hebrew grammar...
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Shaul HaKohen Kohen (born in Djerba, Tunisia – died 1848, also in Djerba) was a Mizrahi Jewish rabbi, and writer of multiple rabbinic literary works....
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Kohen (1928 – 18 October 2021) was a Turkish journalist and columnist. He wrote regular columns about foreign policy for Milliyet since 1954. Kohen was...
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Meir Simcha of Dvinsk (redirect from Meir Simcha HaKohen of Dvinsk)
early 20th century. He was a kohen, and is therefore often referred to as Meir Simcha ha-Kohen ("Meir Simcha the Kohen"). He is known for his writings...
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Nachman Krochmal (redirect from Nachman Kohen Krochmal)
Nachman HaKohen Krochmal (Hebrew: נחמן קְרוֹכְמַל; 17 February 1785 – 31 July 1840) was a Galician Jewish philosopher, theologian, and historian. Nachman...
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Joseph ben Joshua ben Meïr ha-Kohen (also HaKohen, Hakohen or Hacohen; 20 December 1496 in Avignon – 1575 or shortly thereafter in Genoa) was a Jewish...
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The Kohen is given the honor to initiate grace after the meal provided three adult male Jews have dined together. The Kohen may allow a non-Kohen to initiate...
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Jacob Cohen (redirect from Jacob Kohen)
to: Jack Cohen (businessman) (1898–1979), supermarket founder born Jacob Kohen Jacob Cohen (footballer) (born 1956), former Israeli international association...
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family name Azulai is an acronym of the biblical restriction on whom a Kohen may marry: אשה זנה וחללה לא יקחו (Leviticus, 21:7) and, thus, indicating...
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Yisrael Meir Kagan (redirect from Yisroel Meir HaKohen)
Yisrael Meir ha-Kohen Kagan (January 26, 1838 – September 15, 1933) was an influential Lithuanian Jewish rabbi, Halakhist, posek, and ethicist whose works...
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Cohen (redirect from Kohen (disambiguation))
Look up Cohen, cohen, or Kohen in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cohen may refer to: Cohen-kuhi Tau/4, a star 420 light-years away from Earth in the...
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Abraham Cohen Pimentel (redirect from Minchat kohen)
letter of approbation for Sabbatai Zevi. He was the author of the Minchat Kohen, published in 1668. bibliopolis.com[permanent dead link] The Sabbatean Movement...
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Shabbatai ben Meir HaKohen (Hebrew: שבתי בן מאיר הכהן; 1621–1662) was a noted 17th century talmudist and halakhist. He became known as the Shakh (Hebrew:...
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Akiva ben Menaḥem ha-Kohen of Ofen (died 1496) was a Jewish scholar who lived in Hungary and Bohemia in the second half of the fifteenth century. He is...
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Tsadoq (Hebrew: צָדוֹק הַכֹּהֵן, romanized: Ṣādōq ha-Kōhēn; lit. 'righteous, justified'), was a Kohen (priest), biblically recorded to be a descendant from...
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Ancient/Modern Hebrew: Kohen, HaKohen, ben-Kohen, bar-Kohen, Koheni, Kahana, Kohanim, Kohen-Tzedek/Kohen-Tzadik (Katz) Hungarian: Kohn, Kohen, Korn, Korenfeld...
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Chaim HaKohen of Aram Zobah (Aleppo) (Egypt 1585- Italy 1655) was an Egyptian Rabbi. His father was Rabbi Abraham HaKohen, who belonged to a famous family...
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Joshua Falk (redirect from Joshua Falk ha-Kohen)
Alexander Ha-Kohen, jewishencyclopedia.com History of Jewish family Names, jewishgen.org Meir Wunder, Yehoshu‘a ben Aleksander ha-Kohen, in The YIVO Encyclopedia...
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Aliyah (Torah) (section Kohen and Levi aliyot)
If a kohen is present but a Levite is not, the same kohen who was called up for the first aliyah receives the second aliyah as well. If a kohen is not...
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Isaac ben Judah Rapoport HaKohen (יצחק רפפורט הכהן) was an 18th-century rabbi who lived in Ottoman Empire; born and died at Jerusalem, a pupil of rabbi...
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Abraham Cohen of Zante (redirect from Abraham ben Shabbetai Kohen)
Abraham Cohen (Abraham ben Shabbetai ha-Kohen) (1670 – 1729) was a Jewish physician, rabbi, religious philosopher and poet on Zante (Zakynthos), an Ionian...
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