[Avodah] Kohen Gadol

[rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com]

Zev Sero:
> What's not to understand?  When the KG's relative dies, there are many
> thers available who will take care of what needs to be done.  Even if
> e has no siblings with an equal duty, "vechol beit yisrael" will surely
> hare in his grief and not allow his parents to remain unburied.  So he
> an't make himself tamei.  But if he finds himself in a situation where
> f he doesn't do it nobody will (whether it happens to be his relative
> r not), how can he walk past and leave a Jew lying there?

I concur with Zev and just want to add or expound :-) a bit

That AIUI meis mitzvah is k'vod hameis and k'vod habriyos so it overrides
the prohibition of KG or Nazir being Tamei

As Zev has noted, the death of a relative would probably entail a chevra
kadisha taking care of the needs of Burial

NB:  At the death of Nadav and Avihu -
The kohanim were interdicted from mourning
BUT
Acheichem beis Yisroel Yivku es hasreifa.

Theoretically or practically - when a KG or Nazir cannot be metapeil
with a dead relative the house of Israel steps into the breach

While the case of meis mitzva is davka when there IS no chevra to
intercede.

I think Zev covered the basics, I simply wanted to clarify it a bit more.

KT
RRW
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