Liturgy for Eruvin 209:4

תנו רבנן הכל נכנסין בהיכל לבנות לתקן ולהוציא את הטומאה ומצוה בכהנים אם אין שם כהנים נכנסין לוים אין שם לוים נכנסין ישראלים ואידי ואידי טהורין אין טמאין לא

to the Levites<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And not to a relay of priests, though (if more helpers were required) it might have been expected that priests should complete the task their fellows had begun.');">⁹</span> there can be no prohibition against allowing uncleanness to remain for some time in the court,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'uncleanness In court there is not'. As in this case it was only from the 'inner parts that the priests had to remove the uncleanness while the removal from the court was relegated to the Levites, because the defilement of their bodies was not so grave a matter as that of the priests, so also in the case of the Sabbath, wherever the uncleanness is in the court, the degree of transgression must be reduced to a minimum and not even a shebuth may be abrogated.');">¹⁰</span> while the other Master<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' R. Akiba.');">¹¹</span>

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