Disputation of Siyachia
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 Yad ha-Hazaka
|  Magen Zohar
|  Benacian Union
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| Moshe ben Rambam |
| Adin ben Shmuel | ||||||
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A rabbinical conflict within the Yehudi community of the Siyachia for the right to represent the national community of the Siyachi before the gentile authorities of the Benacian Union. The conflict saw communal preachers firstly attempt to take control of the priesthood and the temples whilst simultaneously dividing amongst themselves as to whether the faith should take a legalist or spiritualist path.
Background
The kohanim shall enjoy the assistance of authority to remove from their numbers any who practice heresy or who have refused the Covenant, whether in public or in their hearts, or whom willingly consort with daemons and other such unclean familiars. Those such as these shall not be suffered to live amongst the Community of the Realm unless they repent and it is the duty of all persons to assist the priesthood in their eradication.
—Article 9.1 of the Covenant
One of the peculiarities of the Benacian Covenant was that the Yehudim, a marginalised and despised community since the fall of Ashkenatza, were obliged to send their priests out into the wider world to perform holy works on behalf of the state. Indeed the kohanim of the Levite tribe were recognised as being amongst the holy orders granted liberty and permitted to travel at will, for the purpose of eradicating such heresies as the worship of Daemons and Umraism[1]
Notes
- ^ Since all Benacian subjects are required to resubmit themselves to the Covenant on an annual basis, any departure from the requirements of the Covenant, whether in deed, or word, or thought, is by definition an act of heresy, and moreover of treason, against the Highest Divinity.
