Halakhah for Zevachim 37:26

תנא שערו היה נראה בין ציץ למצנפת

An objection is raised: Priests engaged in their [sacrificial] service, Levite their dais<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Engaged in singing the Temple hymns.');">²⁴</span> and Israelites during their ma'amad<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A body of Israelites, representing the people. stood (ma'amad - 'amad standing) in the Temple court during the sacrificing of the daily burnt-offering (v. Ta'an. 26a) .');">²⁵</span> are exempt from prayer<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The 'Eighteen Benedictions' which were recited daily, and which constituted the Prayer par excellence.');">²⁶</span> and tefillin. Surely that means that if they do put them on, they do not interpose? - No: [it means that] if they do put them on, they do interpose. If so, [can you say,] they are exempt? Surely he should state, they are forbidden [to don them]? - Since there are the Levites and the Israelites, of whom he cannot teach, 'they are forbidden,'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For they are certainly permitted to put them on,since they do not officiate at the actual sacrificing.');">²⁷</span> he therefore teaches, They are exempt. But it was taught: If he put them on, they do not interpose? - There is no difficulty; one refers to [the tefillin of] the hand,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That interposes.');">²⁸</span> the other to that of the head. Wherein does that of the hand differ? because it is written, [And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and his linen breeches] shall he put upon his flesh,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. VI, 3.');">²⁹</span> which implies that nothing may interpose between it and his flesh; then with respect to that of the head too it is written, And thou shalt set the mitre upon his head?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ex. XXIX, 6.');">³⁰</span> - It was taught: His hair was visible between the headplate and the mitre.

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