Friday, February 5, 2010

Samaritan High Priest has passed away

http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=167868


The Samaritan High Priest office stretches back unbroken to biblical times; the High Priest oversees the annual Samaritan pascal sacrifice at the ruins of the Samaritan temple, the last surviving vestige of biblical sacrifice.  I meet Elazar ben Tsedaka once; he was a charming man.  

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