that this and similar upheavals utterly confused the entire lineage tracking of Jews subjected to persecution in Europe. Story about Elijah Luria quotes a story where Hai ben Sherira, Hai Gaon practiced a minhag to travel to Jerusalem for Sukkot and circle the Temple Mount with hundreds of kohanim with the company of Elijah the Prophet. One year a student of his noticed rav Hai laughing during the procession, at the completion of the procession he queried his rabbi as to why, to which rav Hai responded that Elijah revealed to him that, from among the hundreds of kohanim that accompanied him in a haughty way, none were legitimate kohanim aside for one kohen who proceeded humbly. Questioning the story Luria although quoting the story as one "known amongst the works of Rabbinic leaders" was not one of great familiarity amongst rabbinic writers. The story was eventually traced by scholars to have originated in the Parma manuscript of Sefer Chasidim, a manuscript with multiple textual differences to the common edition of "Sefer Chasidim." However, in addition to the story detail creating an anachronism of sorts in that the story portrays rav Hai and Evyathar Kohen-Tzedek as proceeding together in Jerusalem whereas they lived at separate times, some scholars have labeled the story as a Karaite forgery. Others maintain that the story detail falls in line with the opinion spelled out by Hai Gaon in his letter to the priests of Djerba, where Hai expresses that humility is a proper virtue of the kohen and the kohen who does not possess this attribute is of questionable priestly lineage Opposition to Luria Luria's Talmudic explanation that put a damper on the legitimacy of Jewish priests was not readily accepted amongst some poskim. Some cited Luria's reasoning as "a feeble enough reason", while others validated Luria's reasoning solely outside of Israel. Some even went so far as to legitimize Luria's reasoning only to disqualify Ashkenazic priesthood while stating that Sephardic priesthood is of superior quality. The Chatam Sofer rejected Luria's reasoning that the lineage of Ashkenazic priesthood was utterly confused. Opinion of Jacob Emden Regarding the commandment of giving the five silver coins of the firstborn to the kohen. Jacob Emden opined that the presumed status of a presumptive kohen is insufficient to merit actually keeping those five silver coins. Hence, he suggested the kohen agree to a conditional transaction, with the intent