Re: How do you know?

[Eliezer Kaplan <zelwel...>]

< If you know where your father's father (or,
> perhaps, your father, G*d forbid) is buried, visit their grave.  If it has
a
> depiction of upraised hands (what I gather people know as the Star Trek
> position!--Oy!), then the deceased was a kohen.

Then get out of there right away since, as a Kohen, you shouldn't be hanging
out in graveyards.
                                    ek



----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Cohen" <rlcm17 (at) hotmail(dot)com>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 10:51 PM
Subject: Re: How do you know?


> "Family tradition"--i.e., being told by your father!--is indeed the only
way
> we "know"; but keep in mind that men with last names like "Levin,"
"Levine,"
> and such are very likely, I suspect, to be kohens, too.
>
> --Robert Cohen (Nuff said?  Nope, that name was adopted at Ellis
Island--but
> adopted *because* my father knew he was a kohen.)
>
> P.S.  One more thing should be added:  Say, G*d forbid, you lost your
father
> (and, let's say, other family) as an infant; or for some other unusual
> reason, you have no one to ask.  If you know where your father's father
(or,
> perhaps, your father, G*d forbid) is buried, visit their grave.  If it has
a
> depiction of upraised hands (what I gather people know as the Star Trek
> position!--Oy!), then the deceased was a kohen.
>
>
> >Same way Kohanim (priests) know- family tradition. BTW one Levi I know
> >claims there's a tradition in his family that they're descendents of
Moses.
> >I see no reason to doubt him (or the tradition).
>
> Original Message -----
>
> >   So, how does a Levi know that he/she's a Levi if his/her name is not
> >Levi ?
> >   Michal
>
>
>
>
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