[Avodah] Throwing a Drop

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R' Akiva Blum writes:
>>Bigdei kehuna: The  gemorah states, Pesochim 65b, that soiled bigdei kehuna 
are  possul.<<

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My next question then is:  didn't they therefore need new begadim  every day?!

And what about the clothes of the kohen gadol -- very expensive clothes  it 
seems to me -- did they make new ones every day?!  
 
Or if they cleaned them, then they were no longer passul?  But then  -- how 
did they clean them?
 
If you bleach dyed wool it loses its color, if you don't bleach it, how  do 
you get blood stains out without losing the color?  Nowadays we have  amazing 
laundry products that actually can get out bloodstains without removing  dye 
but what did they do back then?
 
One possibility: if they soaked the clothes in cold water right away,  before 
the blood dried, they could maybe have gotten the blood out without  damaging 
the clothes.  Is that what they did? 
 
But then what about the paroches?  They couldn't well have taken it  down and 
washed it every day. (R' Arie Folger wrote that it was cleaned  twice a 
year.) But was it also pasul if stained?  I guess not.




--Toby  Katz
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