[Avodah] Fables and Lies -- The poem Ayleh Ezke'rah

[Moshe Y. Gluck]

R' Shalom Kohn:
> The more serious problem in the poem is that it portrays the kohain
> gadol as lifting the severed head of the nasi and bemoaning his fate.
> This is a very dramatic scene.  But --- since a skull causes tuma'at
> meit, how could the kohain gadol lift the severed head of the nasi?
> 
> There are three possible answers, with only the third (a chiddush)
> potentially satisfactory:
> 
> 1.  The event occurred in a tent, so the kohain gadol was tamei anyway.
> However, there is no heter for the increase in tumah from ohel to
> magah, at least according to most views.
<SNIP>

Maybe when RSBG's was beheaded, his head or his body fell touching R'
Yishmael, so R' Yishmael wasn't increasing to Negiah. 

KT,
MYG