In 1938 , with the outbreak of violence that would come to be known as Kristallnacht , American Orthodox rabbi Mnachem HaKohen Risikoff wrote about the central role he saw for Priests and Levites in terms of Jewish and world responses , in worship , liturgy , and '' teshuva '' , repentance . In הכהנים והלוים HaKohanim vHaLeviim ( 1940 ) '' The Priests and the Levites '' , he stressed that members of these groups exist in the realm between history ( below ) and redemption ( above ) , and must act in a unique way to help move others to prayer and action , and help bring an end to suffering . He wrote , " Today , we also are living through a time of flood , Not of water , but of blood , which burns and turns Jewish life into ruin . We are now drowning in a flood of blood ... Through the Kohanim and Levi'im help will come to all Israel . "
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