[Avodah] An-im Zemiros

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, October 24, 2007 2:47 pm, R Zev Sero wrote:
: Al pi nigleh the reason not to look at the Cohanim, or at anything
: else, is so as not to be distracted from hearing the bracha....

I thought it was so as not to be mevayesh the kehunah by pointing out
the lack of hashra'as haShechinah. Whereas in the days of bayis
rishon, "lo yir'ani adam vachai" like processes prevented the eye to
withstand the light of the Shechinah.

The kavod issue is implied in Chagiga 16a, which puts it together with
staring at the nasi or at a rainbow as being bad (but not terminally
so!) for eyesight.

SheTir'u baTov!
-micha

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