Halakhah for Bekhorot 60:26
בית שמאי אומרים
If, however, he promised to observe the rules of levitical purity but not cleanness of hands, then even his promise to observe the rules of levitical purity is not regarded as a genuine promise.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For, if he will not undertake to keep a simple matter like the washing of hands, then we can have no confidence in his promise to observe other levitical restrictions.');"><sup>11</sup></span>
Sefer HaChinukh
From the laws of the commandment is that which they, may their memory be blessed, said (Bekhorot 30b), that we do not accept a [Levite] who accepts all of the commandments of the Levites except for one thing, [but rather only if] he accepts all of them. And their service was that they would be guardsmen for the Temple, as we have written in this Order (Sefer HaChinukh 388). And some of them were gatekeepers, to open and close the gates of the Temple.
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