Halakhah for Bekhorot 60:56
אשת עם הארץ שנשאת לחבר וכן בתו של עם הארץ שנשאת לחבר וכן עבדו של עם הארץ שנמכר לחבר כולן צריכין לקבל דברי חבירות בתחלה
guarded their dignity by not entrusting matters of levitical cleanness to everybody.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' It was not therefore because R. Hanina held scholars in contempt that he seated some of his disciples with the Rabbis.');"><sup>25</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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