At what age do Levites begin serving in the tabernacle? The early chapters of the book of Bamidbar provide contradictory answers to this seemingly straightforward question. In Parshat Naso (4:3), ...

Abarbanel introduces his commentary on the purification of the Levites by saying:’Now there remains to expound the third level of the servants of Hashem: the Leviim, as after the Torah mentioned ...

A team of geneticists studying the ancestry of Jewish communities has found an unusual genetic signature that occurs in more than half the Levites of European descent. The gene is thought to have ...

Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt was the Chief Rabbi of Moscow, Russia and served as president of the Conference of European Rabbis (CER), which unites over seven hundred communal rabbis from Dublin, Ireland ...

It was neither the Levites, nor the firstborn, nor another tribe; in a complete conceptual shift, the new Jewish elite was the Rabbis. Indeed, just like the Levites during Judaism 1.0, the Rabbis were ...

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In Parashat Naso, the sons of Kehat from the tribe of Levi are specifically commanded to carry the Ark of the Covenant on their shoulders, as it is written: “But to the sons of Kehat he gave none [of ...