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

[Moshe Y. Gluck]

> From: "Moshe Y. Gluck" <mgluck at gmail.com>
> 
> <<Thanks R' ZS for explaining what this issue was all about. I'd like
> to
> suggest that this is not much of an innovation. Doesn't the Gemara say
> that
> people would be lowered into the Kodesh Kadashim to do maintenance in a
> similar movable box?  >>
R' GD: 
> So they would not have hana'ah from seeing the beis kodesh hakadashim.
> Please explain what this has to do with tum'as kohanim?

AIUI, it was so that the worker wouldn't be in the Kodesh Hakadashim - which
is assur unless one is a Kohen Gadol and is performing the Avodah of Yom
Kippur. Same thing here - the movable mechitzos make the Kohen not be in the
cemetery, but in a different structure. Perhaps my memory is faulty -
unfortunately, I also don't remember where the Gemara is, so as to look it
up. Mareh Makom, anyone?

KT,
MYG