Lineage for Kehunah
Within this document, "Kehunah" refers to the state of being a Kohen. "Kohanim" is the plural of Kohen.
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Determining a person's Kehunah based on symptoms of Kehunah, to qualify for various elements of Kehunah
For Lineage, based on Raising Hands for the Kohanim's Blessing of the People: Succah 51a; Ketuvot 24b, 25a(from Bavel)
For Lineage, based on Terumah: Ketuvot 24b, 28b
For Lineage, based on Dough-Tithe of a Biblical Nature: Ketuvot 25a
For eating from Temple Offerings, based on his eating Terumah: Ketuvot 24b-25a
For Tithes, based on Raising Hands for the Kohanim's Blessing of the People: Succah 51a
For Terumah of a Biblical Nature based on Rabbinic Terumah: Ketuvot 25a
For Dough-Tithe, from Raising Hands for the Kohanim's Blessing of the People/Consumption of Rabbinic Terumah, where the Messengers informing of the New Month Reach: Ketuvot 25a
For Terumah and Marriage, from testimony of the Father: Ketuvot 25b
For General Kehunah, from Terumah: Ketuvot 25b
For General Kehunah, from Raising Hands for the Kohanim's Blessing of the People: Ketuvot 25b
For General Kehunah, from Dough-Tithe in Surya: Ketuvot 25a
For General Kehunah, from Raising Hands for the Kohanim's Blessing of the People in Bavel: Ketuvot 25a
For General Kehunah, from getting Gifts from Offerings in Big Cities: Ketuvot 25a
For General Kehunah, from getting the First Ascension to the weekly Torah-Reading: Ketuvot 25b
For General Kehunah, from eating Maaser Rishon: Ketuvot 26a
Suspicion of a Kohen
We Don't check a Kohen who has done the Service already: Pesachim 3b
Foul language as reason to check a Kohen's lineage: Pesachim 3b
How to deal with a case in which a Kohen's child becomes mixed up with the child of the Kohen's mother's servant: Temurah 8a
Credibility
General issues of credibility
Of an individual Witness: Ketuvot 23b, 26a-b
One Witness, versus Challengers: Ketuvot 23b, 26a
One Witness, plus a status quo, against a Rumor and 2 Witnesses that the lineage isn't valid: Ketuvot 26a-b
On One's Self: Ketuvot 23b
On a Relative: Ketuvot 25b
Above Two cases, where the witness is Speaking without knowledge that he is Testifying: Ketuvot 26a
Testimony On Another, who is testifying on the Former's Lineage: Ketuvot 23b
On Himself and Another, for Terumah or for important Lineage: Ketuvot 24a
Removing a Kohen after elevating him: Ketuvot 26b
The "Ketzatzah" Rite
The Ketzatzah is the Custom of a family publicizing its disapproval of the Lineage of a person marrying into their family: Ketuvot 28b
Testifying to having seen someone's Ketzatzah when one was a Minor: Ketuvot 28b
