Quoting%20commentary for Megillah 18:11

במאי אוקימנא דלא כר"מ אימא סיפא אין בין כהן משמש לכהן שעבר אלא פר יוה"כ ועשירית האיפה הא לכל דבריהן זה וזה שוין אתאן לר"מ דתניא אירע בו פסול ומינו כהן אחר תחתיו ראשון חוזר לעבודתו שני כל מצות כהונה גדולה עליו דברי ר"מ רבי יוסי אומר ראשון חוזר לעבודתו שני אינו ראוי לא לכהן גדול ולא לכהן הדיוט

How has it been established? That it is not like Rabbi Meir. Say about the end [of the Mishnah]: There is no difference between a serving [high] priest and a former priest except a bull for Yom Kippur and the tenth of a ephah. But regarding all of their other things, this one and that one are equal. We come to [the teaching of] Rabbi Meir, as was taught: [If] an invalidation befalls [the high priest], and they appointed another priest [to serve] in his place, [when] the first one returns to his service, the second [still has] all of the commandments of the high priesthood upon him -- the words of Rabbi Meir. Rabbi Yose says: [When] the first one returns to his service, the second one is no longer fit to be either high priest or a common priest.

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