[Avodah] May Kohanim visit the Rebbe's Ohel by means of a "box"?

[Zev Sero]

Richard Wolpoe wrote:

> The fact that Kohanim have avoided cemeteries for centuries

I've never heard that kohanim have ever avoided cemeteries.  In my
experience cohanim go to funerals, taking care to stay four amot
away from any unfenced grave.  At the Melbourne Chevra Kadisha
cemetery the chapel has a special cohanim room, which is not under
the same roof as the room where the body is, and is separated by a
glass wall.  And the roads have markings at the point where cohanim
can go no further.  Cohanim and their families are buried in the
front row so their relatives can visit while standing in the road.

I understand that if a particular cemetery doesn't have such
facilities, i.e. if the roads are less than 8 amot wide (from the
front row of graves on one side to the front row on the other side),
and no fence around the chelkot, then cohanim can't visit that
particular cemetery, but not that they can't visit cemeteries in
general.

As far as I know a cohen must be separated from a grave by either
four amot of open space, or a fence 10 tefachim high.  One or the
other is sufficient.  If the path leading to the LR's ohel were
more than eight amot wide, a cohen could walk down the middle in
safety.  Since it isn't, a cohen may not walk down it unless there is
a fence between him and the graves lining the path.  The box is
such a fence, and allows him to reach the ohel in safety.  What
could possibly be wrong with it?


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