Commentary for Kiddushin 156:1
האי קרא רישא בכהן גדול וסיפא בכהן הדיוט אמר ליה אין
This verse, the first part refers to a High Priest and the second to an ordinary priest?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For the first half prohibits marriage to a widow, while the second half 'and a widow that is a widow of a priest they shall take' permits it.');"><sup>1</sup></span> - Yes, he replied. And is a verse thus written? - Even so, he replied, for it is written, and the lamp of God was not yet gone out, and Samuel was laid down [to sleep] in the Temple of the Lord.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I Sam. III, 3.');"><sup>2</sup></span>
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