Quoting%20commentary for Moed Katan 55:3

ואמר ר' אלעזר אף מרים בנשיקה מתה אתיא שם שם ממשה ומפני מה לא נאמר בה על פי ה' מפני שגנאי הדבר לאומרו

placed next to the [laws of the] red heifer?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. XIX. It is called a 'sin-offering' and the ritual use of its ashes afforded the means of purification as well as the desire to sanctification.');">⁵</span> To inform you that even as the red heifer afforded atonement [by the ritual use of its ashes], so does the death of tie righteous afford atonement [for the living they have left behind]. R'Eleazar said, Wherefore is [the account of] Aaron's death closely followed by [the account of the disposal of] the priestly vestments?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. XX, 26, 28.');">⁶</span> [To inform you] that just as the priest's vestments were [means] to effect atonement,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XVI, 4, 24, 32, 33. Cf. Zeb. 88b.');">⁷</span>

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