Mesorat%20hashas for Yoma 15:15

כמאן אזלא הא דתנו רבנן אין בין כהן השורף את הפרה לכהן גדול ביום הכפורים אלא

R'Jose says: He may go down to bathe as usual, provided he does not rub that part.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Shab. 120b.');">¹⁸</span> And it is established that they are disputing the question as to whether it is obligatory for a ritual immersion to take place in its proper time; the first Tanna holding we do not say that it is obligatory for a ritual immersion to be taken in its proper time, and R'Jose affirming that we do say that it is obligatory for a ritual immersion to be taken i its proper place.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' From here it would appear that R. Jose held the ritual bath should be taken as soon as it is due.');">¹⁹</span> - Rather: Everybody agrees that those two Tannaim<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' R. Meir and R. Jose.');">²⁰</span> both hold we do say that it is obligatory for a ritual immersion to be taken in its proper time, and their dispute above concerns the following principle: R'Meir is of the opinion that we compare<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'analogy', 'comparison', usually based on the close connection of two subjects in one and the same passage of the Torah. Arguments from Hekkesh are, in general, regarded as being more conclusive than those from Gezerah Shawah, the former not admitting of refutation. Both could be applied only for the purpose of supporting a traditional law. Mielziner, l.c.');">²¹</span> the [law concerning] 'sprinkling' to [that concerning] the immersion<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. supra p. 12.');">²²</span> and R'Jose holds we do not compare 'sprinkling' to immersion'. What about R'Hanina, the deputy high priest? If he compares 'sprinkling' to 'immersion', the high priest on the Day of Atonement too [should be sprinkled on every day]. And if he does not compare 'sprinkling' to 'immersion' the priest who burns the heifer [should] neither [be sprinkled on every day]? - In truth he does not make that comparison, the enactment<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That he be sprinkled on the third and fifth days.');">²³</span> touching the priest who burns the heifer being a mere special stringency.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As to the stringency v. p. 10, n. 2, but even so the sprinkling was not indispensable on any definite day; all that was prohibited was too long an interval between the first and the second sprinkling (Rashi) .');">²⁴</span> According to whose opinion is the following teaching: There is no difference between the priest who burns the heifer and the high priest on the Day of Atonement except

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