Liturgy for Eruvin 209:9

דקאמר תנא קמא לא יכנס ואמר ליה רבי שמעון יכנס:

R'Huna observed: R'Kahana lends his support to the priests,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' 'Kahane', a play upon the Aramaic equivalent of 'priests' and the name of R. 'Kahana'. In the following exposition R. Kahana gives precedence 'to unclean priests over clean Israelites.');">¹⁹</span> for R'Kahana learned: Since it was said: Only he shall not go in unto the veil,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XXI, 23, which deals with priests who are afflicted with a blemish.');">²⁰</span> it might have been assumed that priests who have a blemish must not enter between the Ulam and the altar to make the beaten plates.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Of gold; wherewith the interior of the Holy of Holies was overlaid.');">²¹</span>

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