[Avodah] Paamon veRimon

[Lisa Liel]

On 7/25/2011 12:53 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
> I'm wondering:
>
> 1- Is someone who is presumably tamei allowed to touch and be metamei
> bigdei kehunah?

Is there reason to think that tum'ah hutra b'tzibbur wouldn't apply here?

> 2- Aside from the meshuach milchamah, which was not an issue during
> Herod's Bayis, were the 8 begadim ever worn outside the Har haBayis? (I
> guess the bell could come off during laundering, thus finding it in a
> watershed that didn't actually run /through/ Har haBayis doesn't rule
> out the bell being sacred. The story just got me wondering.)

Given the Kohanim Gedolim we had towards the end of Bayit Sheni, I 
wouldn't be surprised if they'd worn them to a brothel.

Lisa