Mesorat%20hashas for Arakhin 19:18

במאי קמיפלגי

FROM WHICH PRIESTS WOULD MARRY [WOMEN].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Not slaves but youths of noble families, with whom the proud priestly families were willing to intermarry. The practical difference arising from this dispute has something to do with a man's claim to descent and desire to marry into a priestly family. If none but the youths of such excellent families were admitted to such service, participation in the latter would be sufficient evidence of noble descent and would eo ipso be sufficient ground for admission into such family. According to R. Meir even servants were admitted to such service, hence former participation therein is no evidence of noble descent, and no self-sufficient ground for admission into a priestly family.');">¹²</span>

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