Commentary for Bekhorot 57:38

מנפח אדם בית הפרס והולך

or with the ashes of purification. It stands proved. IF HE WAS A PRIEST, AND HE WAS MADE UNCLEAN IN RESPECT OF HIS TERUMAH. How could the priest go to a place of uncleanness?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Thus transgressing the negative precept There shall none be defiled for the dead (Lev. XXI, 1) .');">²⁴</span> - He went to a beth ha-peras,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A field rendered unclean on account of crushed bones carried over it from a ploughed grave.');">²⁵</span> the prohibition being a rabbinical enactment. For Rab Judah reported in the name of Rab: A man can blow away the bones of a beth ha-peras and may then proceed.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To bring the Paschal lamb, since abstaining from this fear of uncleanness would render him liable to the guilt of excision; but in respect of terumah the rabbinic enactment stands.');">²⁶</span>

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