PIDYON HABEN WITHOUT A KOHEN
Shulchan Aruch (Y.D. 61:8) "Matnas Kehuna
may be
given to a כהנת (female) even if she is
married to a Yisroel. "
The Chasam Sofer (Shu"t Y.D. 301)
writes he used to give* it to his brother in law**
(who was married to a כהנת)
There is a Machlokes Rishonim
If a כהנת may also redeem a Bechor.
According to Tosfos (Kiddushin 8a dh R. Kahane)
2nd Tirutz one may use a כהנת for Pidyon Haben.
The Ch. Sofer writes If a כהן isn't available
and the person who never had a Pidyon is in the
Gevuros (the eighties)
or a זריז who has no access to a כהן on the
30th day
(they both don't want to take chances of dying
before having performed the Mitzvah)
They should use a כהנת without making
the Bracha. They should make a תנאי that if no
כהן will be found, she shall be the redeemer.
*Halachically not necessary
**This Teshuva is dated before the Petirah
of his first wife, therefore, it must have
been R' Hirsh Yervitz zt"l (unless there were
other brothers in the Yervitz Mishpacha
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