ABSTRACT
Financing' is a recent term that reduces the verb finance' to its exclusively monetary and material element. As for the word worship', it also refers to a dated, institutional and even administrative definition of religious practice. Here we find comparable items: public funding when authorized, funding according to current laws on associations, funding via foundations, donations and bequests, all controlled, once again, by the legislation in question. Through the relationship between levi'im, cohanim and israelim, we see that, in reality, it is a way to understand society in its relations with transcendence and everything economic that offers itself up to the analyst. The concept of worship is so marked by that of caste or ecclesiastical apparatus that first and foremost we need to recognize what distinguishes the tribe of Levi, the sacerdotal tribe par excellence, instituted by God's Word.
