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# There is no Birkat Cohanim at night. <ref>Yalkut Yosef, Tefillah Volume 1, page 339</ref> | # There is no Birkat Cohanim at night. <ref>Yalkut Yosef, Tefillah Volume 1, page 339</ref> | ||
# Birkat Cohanim is only said if there is a minyan and the minyan includes the Cohanim. <ref>S"A 128:1, Mishna Brurah 128:2</ref> | # Birkat Cohanim is only said if there is a minyan and the minyan includes the Cohanim. <ref>S"A 128:1, Mishna Brurah 128:2</ref> | ||
==Procedure of Birkat Cohanim for the Cohanim== | ==Procedure of Birkat Cohanim for the Cohanim== | ||
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# A Cohen is forbidden marry a divorcee or a convert. If he does, his child has the title of a "Challal", and this child may not do birkat Cohanim. Him and all his descendents are "Challalim" and may not do Birkat Cohanim (because they are not considered Cohanim).<ref>Yalkut Yosef, Tefillah Volume 1, page 322 Rambam, Mishneh Torah: Hilchot Tefillah U'Birkat Cohanim, Chapter 15, Halacha 5</ref> | # A Cohen is forbidden marry a divorcee or a convert. If he does, his child has the title of a "Challal", and this child may not do birkat Cohanim. Him and all his descendents are "Challalim" and may not do Birkat Cohanim (because they are not considered Cohanim).<ref>Yalkut Yosef, Tefillah Volume 1, page 322 Rambam, Mishneh Torah: Hilchot Tefillah U'Birkat Cohanim, Chapter 15, Halacha 5</ref> | ||
# A sick person who is attatched to a catheter, which holds his urine under his clothing, may do birkat Cohanim as long as his outer clothes are clean, and there is no bad smell coming out of him. <ref>Yalkut Yosef, Tefillah Volume 1, page 319</ref> | # A sick person who is attatched to a catheter, which holds his urine under his clothing, may do birkat Cohanim as long as his outer clothes are clean, and there is no bad smell coming out of him. <ref>Yalkut Yosef, Tefillah Volume 1, page 319</ref> | ||
===Cohanim washing their hands before Birkat Cohanim=== | |||
#A Cohen with impure hands (i.e. he did not wash his hands) should not do birkat Cohanim<ref>Rambam, Mishneh Torah: Hilchot Tefillah U'Birkat Cohanim, Chapter 15, Halacha 5</ref> | |||
# The kohanim need to wash their entire hands for birkat kohanim<ref>S"A 128:6</ref>, even on [[Tisha Be’av]] on which one can’t wash past the knuckles. Only Levim who regularly wash their own hands before washing the kohanim’s, can wash on [[Tisha Be’av]] before washing the kohanims' hands. <ref> [http://www.dailyhalacha.com/Display.asp?ClipID=958 Rabbi Mansour on dailyhalacha.com]</ref> | |||
# The Levi is supposed to pour the water upon the hands of the cohanim in order to wash them. If there's no Levi, a firstborn should do it. If there's no firstborn, the cohen should wash his own hands.<ref>S"A 128:6, Mishna Brurah 128:22</ref> | |||
# The cohanim do not make a bracha for this washing of their hands.<ref>S"A 128:7, Mishna Brurah 128:24</ref> | |||
==Minhag of thanking Cohanim== | ==Minhag of thanking Cohanim== | ||
# There is a minhag that after Birkat Cohanim, the congregants should go to the Cohanim and say "Chazak U'baruch" or "Yashar Koach". Even though they (the Cohanim) were obligated to do what they did, they still could have made themselves exempt by leaving. Therefore, it is fitting to praise them.<ref>Yalkut Yosef, Tefillah Volume 1, page 338</ref> | # There is a minhag that after Birkat Cohanim, the congregants should go to the Cohanim and say "Chazak U'baruch" or "Yashar Koach". Even though they (the Cohanim) were obligated to do what they did, they still could have made themselves exempt by leaving. Therefore, it is fitting to praise them.<ref>Yalkut Yosef, Tefillah Volume 1, page 338</ref> | ||
