Commentary for Yoma 12:9

איכא דאמרי אפי' היכא דאיכא טהורין וטמאין בההוא בית אב פליג רב נחמן ואמר עבדי נמי טמאין

The dispute concerns only the question as to whether one is obliged to make an endeavour to obtain, clean ones from another family-division. R'Nahman said: [The law of] corpse-uncleanness is inoperative In case of a community, hence we need make no such effort. R'Shesheth says: That law is only suspended in case of a community and hence we must endeavour [to find clean priests for the service]. Some hold that even in a case in which there are both clean and unclean priests in the same family-division, R'Nahman insists that even the unclean ones may officiate

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