Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Halakhah for Yoma 136:20

שינה הוא דלא הא הלוכי מהלכי בדין הוא דהלוכי נמי לא

HE WHO SEES THE HIGH PRIEST WHEN HE READS DOES NOT SEE THE BULLOCK AND THE HE-GOAT THAT ARE BEING BURNT, AND HE THAT SEES THE BULLOCK AND THE HE-GOAT THAT ARE BEING BURNT DOES NOT SEE THE HIGH PRIEST WHEN HE READS: NOT THAT HE WAS NOT PERMITTED BUT BECAUSE THE DISTANCE APART WAS GREAT AND BOTH RITES WERE PERFORMED AT THE SAME TIME. <big><b>GEMARA: </b></big>Since it states: IN HIS OWN WHITE VESTMENT,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Robe, garment; either the Greek stole, or a derivation of talal, cf. talith - Jast, and does not necessitate sacred priestly vestments.');"><sup>19</sup></span> the inference is that reading is not a [Temple] service, and then it states: IF HE WISHED TO READ IN THE LINEN GARMENTS HE COULD DO SO, from which one may learn that priestly garments may be enjoyed for private use!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For private clean use, as against the possibility of impurity in sleep.');"><sup>20</sup></span> Perhaps it is different with reading, because it is a necessity for the [Temple] service. For the question was raised: Are the priestly garments allowed for private use or not allowed! - Come and hear: They would nor sleep in the holy garments.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Tamid 25b.');"><sup>21</sup></span> Now they could not sleep in them, but they could eat in them!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Although eating is not part of the service, it is permissible for priests to eat in their official garments.');"><sup>22</sup></span> - Perhaps it is different with the eating, because it is necessary for the service, for it was taught: And they shall eat those things wherewith atonement was made;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ex. XXIX, 23.');"><sup>23</sup></span> this teaches that the priests eat and the owner obtains atonement.' They could not sleep in them', but could they walk around in them? - In truth they might not walk around in them either

Sefer HaChinukh

And work [with it] disqualifies it, as it is written (Numbers 19:12), "that has borne no yoke upon it." And any labor is [considered equivalent] to a yoke; therefore, they, may their memory be blessed, said that even if he placed a cloak on it, it is disqualified. If, however, it needed to be guarded and it was tied by a rope, it is acceptable (Mishnah Parah 2:3, Mishneh Torah, Laws of Red Heifer 1:7), but if it did not need guarding, it is disqualified, as any protection that is unnecessary is a burden. And it was purchased with money from the collection of the cell (Mishnah Shekalim 4:2). And a heifer that became blemished can be redeemed and it goes out to being non-sacred. And [also] that which they, may their memory be blessed, said (Yoma 88b) about the matter that it is the one who burns the heifer that is impure, that this is the one who assists in the burning - such as the one who turns over the meat, or throws in firewood, or [moves] the fire or stokes the coals to have the fire burn [better], and similar to these - but the one who lights the fire in the furnace, or arranges the wood, is pure, as is anyone who deals with it after it has become ashes.
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