[Avodah] Paamon veRimon

[Micha Berger]

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 01:53:08PM -0400, I wrote:
: 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.)

Well, I'm looking through sources and see I erred on this one.

Bigdei kehunah were not washed for reuse -- ein aniyus bemaqom ashirus
(Zevachim 88b). If dam chatas had to be removed (94b) it was washed in
the BHMQ (with subsequent questions about how to wash a tamei beged)
but then that is to get the blood, not to reuse the beged. In any case,
laundering isn't going to be how a me'il lost a paamon.

I haven't yet found a discussion of whether there is an issur in being
metamei bigdei kehunah. But there are at least hezeq/me'ilah issues,
as the beged was made unusable. You can tear and repair the beged to be
metaheir it, but you can't use a repaired beged any more than a laundered
one. Not necessarily an issue, even if this bell were from a me'il.

However, how would living hands, at most a rishon letum'ah, get a keli
tamei anyway? I think my other question doesn't even get started.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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