Zevachim 19B

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ששם מניחין תפילין.

it was there that the High Priests would don their tefillin. Consequently, the tefillin of the head did not interpose between the mitre and the priest’s head.

מחוסר כיפורים מנלן? אמר רב הונא, אמר קרא: ״וכפר עליה הכהן וטהרה״⁠ – ״טהרה״ מכלל שהיא טמאה.

§ The Mishnah teaches that rites performed by one who has not yet brought an atonement offering to complete the purification process are disqualified. The Talmud asks: From where do we derive this? Rav Huna says: The verse states with regard to the offering brought by a woman who has given birth: “And the priest should make atonement for her, and she should be pure” (Leviticus 12:8). Since the verse states: “And she should be pure,” one learns by inference that she is ritually impure to some extent until she brings her offering, even though she has already immersed. Anyone who has not yet brought an atonement offering is likewise impure to some extent, and rites performed by one who is impure are disqualified (see 17a).

ושלא רחוץ ידים ורגלים. אתיא ״חוקה״–״חוקה״ ממחוסר בגדים.

§ The Mishnah teaches that rites performed by one whose hands and feet are not washed are disqualified. The Talmud explains: This halakha is derived by verbal analogy between “statute” mentioned in this context and “statute” from the case of one lacking the requisite vestments, whose rites are disqualified (see 17b).

תנו רבנן: כהן גדול שלא טבל ושלא קידש בין בגד לבגד ובין עבודה לעבודה, ועבד ⁠– עבודתו כשרה. ואחד כהן גדול ואחד כהן הדיוט שלא קידש ידיו ורגליו שחרית, ועבד ⁠– עבודתו פסולה.

A baraita states: With regard to a High Priest who did not immerse or did not sanctify his hands and feet during the Yom Kippur service between donning the golden garments and the white linen garments, or between performance of one rite and another rite, and he performed the service in this state, his service is valid after the fact. But with regard to either a High Priest or an ordinary priest who did not sanctify his hands and feet at all in the morning and performed the service, his service is disqualified.

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