Commentary for Yoma 48:18
אמר רב נחמן מנא אמינא לה דתנן מסרון לחזנין והיו מפשיטין אותן את בגדיהן ולא היו מניחין עליהן אלא מכנסים בלבד
R'Shesheth said: Sacred garments'. For if you were to say common garments, it would happen that, out of sheer love [of the service] they would perform it in common clothes.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If the lot fell on them.');"><sup>31</sup></span> R'Nahman said: On what ground do I hold my view? Because we have learnt: They delivered them to the Temple sextons, who stripped them of their garments and left them with their breeches only.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Tam. V, 3.');"><sup>32</sup></span>
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