What Does a Kohen Have to Do with the Protocols of the Ashkenazic Community of Amsterdam? A Conflict between Community Sanctity and the Righteousness of the Ancients

IF 0.1 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Zutot Pub Date : 2023-08-14 DOI:10.1163/18750214-12171092
Asaf Yedidya
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This article deals with an incident in the Ashkenazic community of Amsterdam in 1772 that was documented in the protocols of the community. A member of the congregation confessed to the rabbi after the death of her husband, a kohen, that she was in fact a convert. The rabbi informed her son that as the son of a kohen married to a convert he was defined as a ḥalal (disqualified), and thereby lost his status as a kohen. A few weeks later, the rabbi and his bet din (Jewish tribunal) were required to reconsider the halakhic significance of the mother’s testimony about herself and the status of her children and came to the opposite conclusion, that the mother was not a convert and her son was indeed a kohen. The article discusses the possible reasons for re-examining a halakhic question that had already been decided and for reversing the decision, while clarifying the founding ethos of the community, its style of conduct, and the nature of its records. Finally I speculate about what lay behind the mother’s admission.
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Kohen与阿姆斯特丹阿什肯纳兹社区的议定书有什么关系?共同体的神圣性与古人的正义性的冲突
这篇文章涉及1772年阿姆斯特丹阿什肯纳兹社区发生的一起事件,该事件记录在社区协议中。一名会众在她的丈夫科亨去世后向拉比承认,她实际上是一名皈依者。拉比告诉她的儿子,作为一个与皈依者结婚的科亨的儿子,他被定义为ḥ阿拉尔(被取消资格),从而失去了科亨的身份。几周后,拉比和他的bet-din(犹太法庭)被要求重新考虑母亲关于自己和孩子地位的证词的清真意义,并得出了相反的结论,即母亲不是皈依者,她的儿子确实是科亨人。文章讨论了重新审查已经决定的清真问题和推翻决定的可能原因,同时澄清了社区的创始精神、行为风格和记录的性质。最后,我想了想这位母亲入院的原因。
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期刊介绍: Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture aims to fill a gap that has become more and more conspicuous among the wealth of scholarly periodicals in the field of Jewish Studies. Whereas existing journals provide space to medium and large sized articles, they neglect the small but poignant contributions, which may be as important as the extended, detailed study. The Zutot serves as a platform for small but incisive contributions, and provides them with a distinct context. The substance of these contributions is derived from larger perspectives and, though not always presented in an exhaustive way, will have an impact on contemporary discussions. The Zutot covers Jewish culture in its broadest sense, i.e. encompassing various academic disciplines—literature, languages and linguistics, philosophy, art, sociology, politics and history—and reflects binary oppositions such as religious and secular, high and low, written and oral, male and female culture.
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