Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz

Okay, again, all this will be Luz Chusru Fushlim for Yom HaTanayitim.

Everyone have a wonderful Shabbos.

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I ran into Rabbi Rapp a few months ago in the hallway and he told me that he had a classmate in high school who is the answer to a great trivia question.

The trivia question was, how can you have two brothers who have the same mother and the same father

And yet one is a Kohen and one is not a Kohen.

And the answer, of course, is that the parents were married to each other and then they got divorced and then they got remarried to each other and the father was a Kohen.

So they had a child from the first marriage and that child is perfectly a Kohen.

Then they got divorced, they got remarried, so he was makhsir grushasos, so Cohen marries a grusha, the child is a halal.

So Rabbi Rapp said that when they were learning makhs in 12th grade, and Rabbi Fein's here in MTA, so on the first day of shiur, Rabbi Fein said, does anyone know what a ben grusha, a ben halutza is?

And this young man raised his hand and said, ben grusha, yeah, that's me, I'm a ben grusha.

So Rabbi Fein said, you don't know what you're talking about.

He said, you don't know what you're talking about, I'm a ben grusha, I'm telling you, I'm a ben grusha.

So Rabbi Rapp pointed out at that time, this is a long introduction, he pointed out at that time that when the guy got married, it was a big shayla.

How do you write his name in the ksuba?

Meaning, let's say his name is Reuven ben Yaakov.

So his father's a Kohen.

He's not a Kohen.

So do you write Reuven ben Yaakov a Kohen?

But that gives the impression that he's a Kohen, but he's not a Kohen, because that's how you write the name of any Kohen.