Quoting%20commentary for Moed Katan 28:21

אבל אסור בתספורת מדקאמר להו רחמנא לבני אהרן (ויקרא י, ו) ראשיכם אל תפרעו מכלל דכולי עלמא אסור

Said Raba: Come and hear:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That the leper deports himself as a leper in the festival week also.');">²⁹</span> '[It is taught]: And the leper. [in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent and the hair of his head shall be loose.],<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sifra on Lev. XIII, 45 where by laying stress on 'And the' together with the descriptive clause 'in whom the plague is' still, the wording is taken to include especially the otherwise exceptional person of the High Priest, who may never grow long hair or wear torn clothes, even when a mourner. Lev. XXI, 10.');">³⁰</span> that is meant to include a High Priest [in this rule]'. Now [we learned] a High Priest all through the year is on a par with any other person on a festival, as we learned: The High Priest may make sacrifice [on the altar] even when he be onen,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., on the day of poignant grief, when the death of his near and dear occurred. This law is based on the sad experience of Aaron who lost two of his soils on the day of his induction as High Priest. He then offered up the sacrifices, but did not partake of the holy meat. V. Lev. X, 16; 16-20. Cf. Hor., Sonc. ed. pp. 90 and 93. Any other priest may not officiate during the state of onen, except on festivals when the law of onen does not apply.');">³¹</span> without however eating thereof! From this [latter restriction of even a High Priest] you can infer [about the former] that he should deport himself as a leper during the festival. - Infer that. A mourner is forbidden to cut his hair, because since the Divine Law ordained the sons of Aaron:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' When Nadab and Abihu died.');">³²</span> Let not the hair of your heads go loose,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., keep it in trim. V. Lev. X, 6 and cf, Ezek. XLIV, 20.');">³³</span> we infer that for everybody else [cutting the hair] is forbidden

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