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Can a Kohen Waive Priestly Honor?
עברית The Dignity and Responsibility of the Priesthood Can a Kohen Waive the Honor of the Priesthood? Humility is a virtue. But humility does not require the Kohen to diminish the priestly role entrusted to him. The Torah places the Kohen within Israel in a position of sanctity, instruction, blessing, responsibility, and leadership. THE SHORT…
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Rabbi Israel HaKohen Kahanovitch
Story: In the previous generation there was a superb scholar that has been quite unknown beyond his community and those that met him. Rabbi Israel Isaac Kahanovitch, whose Hilula fell on 11 Tammuz (1945), was the Chief Rabbi of all of Western Canada and the Western United States from 1905-1945. Rabbi Kahanovitch attended the…