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1573:, dated 1034 CE, records a customary formula recited weekly in the synagogues, during the Sabbath day: "Today is the holy Sabbath, the holy Sabbath unto the Lord; this day, which is the course? is the course. May the Merciful One return the course to its place soon, in our days. Amen." After which, they would recount the number of years that have passed since the destruction of Jerusalem, and conclude with the words: "May the Merciful One build his house and sanctuary, and let them say 1680:(1973), one of the most important scholars of rabbinic literature in the previous generation. The priestly wards were seen as one of the most distinctive elements in the collective memory of the Jewish people as a nation during the period of Roman and Byzantine rule in the Land of Israel following the destruction of the Second Temple, insofar as they came to symbolize Jewish worship within the Land. 39: 661:(Ta‘anith 4:2 / 20a): "Four wards came up out of exile: Yedaiah, Harim, Pašḥūr and Immer. The prophets among them had made a stipulation with them, namely, that even if Jehoiariv should come up out of exile, the officiating ward that serves in the Temple at that time should not be rejected on his account, but rather, he is to become secondary unto them." 616:) from Ithamar's descendants, were designated by King David to help create the various priestly work groups. Sixteen of Eleazar's descendants were selected to head priestly orders, while only eight of Ithamar's descendants were so chosen; this imbalance was done because of the greater number of leaders among Eleazar's descendants. 711:
and poems from the period record that the descendants of each priestly watch established a separate residential seat in towns and villages of the Galilee, and maintained this residential pattern for at least several centuries in anticipation of the reconstruction of the Temple and reinstitution of
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After the destruction, there was a custom of publicly recalling every Sabbath in the synagogues the courses of the priests, a practice that reinforced the prestige of the priests' lineage. Such mention evoked the hope of return to Jerusalem and reconstruction of the Temple.
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showing a partial list of the priestly wards. In 1962 three small fragments of one Hebrew stone inscription bearing the partial names of places associated with the priestly courses (the rest of which had been reconstructed) were found in
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Several stone inscriptions have been discovered bearing partial lists of the priestly wards, their order and the name of the locality to which they had moved after the destruction of the Second Temple:
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Though a complete list of sacerdotal names numbers at twenty-four, the surviving inscription is fragmentary and only eleven names remain. The place of residence of each listed individual in
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to the people. The change between shifts took place on Shabbat at midday, with the outgoing shift performing the morning sacrifice, and the incoming shift the afternoon sacrifice.
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Lots were drawn to designate the order of Temple service for the different priestly orders. Each order was responsible for ministering during a different week and
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Compare also the reconstruction as was published by Shalom Medina in the journal, "Afikim," 92, Tel-Aviv, 1988/9, pp. 28–30.
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In 1970 a stone inscription was found on a partially buried column in a mosque, in the village of
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refers to these priests as "descendants of Aaron." According to the Bible, Aaron had four sons:
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the cycle of priestly courses. Specifically, this Kohanic settlement region stretched from the
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for the Land of Israel, this is also attested to by an inscription bearing the names of the
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Avi-Yonah, Michael (1964). "The Caesarea Inscription of the Twenty-Four Priestly Courses".
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Rainer Degen, "An Inscription of the Twenty-Four Priestly Courses from the Yemen",
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have been composed, and to this day some are recited by Jews as part of the
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Avi-Yonah, Michael (1962). "A List of Priestly Courses from Caesarea".
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Jews in Byzantium: Dialectics of Minority and Majority Cultures
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and then, independently, by P. Grjaznevitch within a mosque in
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As for the probable strong spiritual attachment held by the
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The 24 priestly divisions are first listed in the Biblical
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The names legible on the Yemenite column read as follows:
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were divided for the purposes of their service in the
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Following the Temple's destruction at the end of the
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All of the orders were present during 2404: 2200: 2198: 2303: 2277: 583: 2221: 2028:; some identifications are uncertain 1805:יָקִים פַּשְׁחוּר צפת משמר שנים עשר 459:The mitzvah of sanctifying the Kohen 362:Field not redeemed in a Jubilee year 330:Heave offering of the Levite's tithe 95:The Torah instruction of the Kohanim 2267:, Jerusalem 1973, pp. 302–303 2195: 553: 494:Contact by a kohen with a dead body 261:Oil from the offering for the leper 13: 1996:Qumran calendrical texts#Mishmarot 1968:Steven Schweitzer (1 March 2009). 1781:שְׁכַנְיָה עבורה כבול משמר העשירי 687:Following the Temple's destruction 358:Dedication of property to a priest 14: 2433: 1974:. A&C Black. pp. 29–30. 1822:the thirteenth (ward). 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Index

Priesthood in Judaism
Menorah
Kohen
Presumption of priestly descent
Priestly covenant
Priestly Blessing
Redemption of the firstborn son
Tzaraath (skin disease and mildew)
The Torah instruction of the Kohanim
Sacrifice
Incense offering
Beth din shel Kohanim
Priestly divisions
High Priests
Aaron
Eleazar
Phinehas
Eli
Ahimelech
Abiathar
Zadok
Shallum
Hilkiah
Jehoiada
Joshua the High Priest
Simeon the Just
Ishmael ben Elisha HaKohen
Joshua ben Gamla
Phannias ben Samuel
Twenty-four priestly gifts

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