Cohen's blood line

[Anna]

The mainly reason I decided to write , it is just to shear information, which came from the book of Zecharia Sitchin The cosmic code. I thought it could be interesting for you.. ore perhaps you can tell even more..



The priestly line begun with Aaron was subjected to rigorous laws imposing marital and procreation constraints….
These strictures intrigued generations of biblical scholars; but their true significance became evident only with the advent of DNA researches. It was only in January 1997, in the journal NATURE, that an international group of scientists reported the existence of a Priestly Gene among Jews whose lineage can be traced back to Aaron. Unchanged Jewish traditions require that certain rituals and blessings called for Sabbath and High Holidays services must be performed only by Cohen. The term, meaning priest, was first used in the Bible to describe Aaron and his sons. Ever since then, the designation has been passed down through the generations from fathers to sons, and the only way to become a Cohen is to be born as a son of one. This privileged status has been as often as not identified by using Cohen as a family name (transmuted into Kahn, Kahane, Kuhn) or as an adjuctive added after a person’s name, so and so Ha-Cohen, “the priest”.
It was this aspect of the patrilineal nature of the Jewish Cohen tradition that intrigued a research team from Israel, England, Canada, and the USA. Focusing on the male “Y” chromosome that is passed from father to son, they tested hundreds of “Cohens” in different countries and found that by and large they had two unique “markers” on the chromosome . This proved to the case both for Ashkenazi (East European) and Sephardi ( Near Eastern/African) Jews who had branched out after the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in a.d.70, indicating the antiquity of the genetic markers.
“ The simplest and most straightforward explanation is that these men have the Y chromosome of Aaron , - explained Dr. Karl Skorecki of the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa.

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Anna