[Avodah] Kohanim in Cemeteries

[Zev Sero]

Jonathan Baker wrote:

> so why not use the box on shabbos to carry stuff?  wear the box on
> suspenders, and carry stuff inside.  you're inside a fence.

But you'd be carrying the fence itself through a RHR.  I can't find a
clear issur for that, but nor can I find a heter.

Or perhaps the problem isn't that you're carrying the fence, but that
with every step you take it's as if you're constructing it anew, which
is forbidden on Shabbos.  (If I'm reading the Shulchan Aruch correctly,
the people who make up a human mechitzah must not know what they're
doing until they've stopped walking.  Once they're in place and not
moving, they can be told what they're doing and to stand still, and you
can carry in the middle, but after that they can't walk any more.  I
assume the reason is that if they walk they're building the mechitzah
anew with each step, with the intent of building, which is forbidden.)

None of these considerations apply to a cohen in a cemetery on a
weekday, when both carrying and construction are permitted.

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