Negative Commandment 167 (Digest)
A High Priest under the Same Roof as a Corpse
"Neither shall he come close to any dead body"—Leviticus 21:11.
A high priest is prohibited from being under the same roof as a human corpse—even if the deceased is his next of kin.
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> The 167th prohibition is that a kohen gadol is forbidden from being under the same roof as a dead body, even if it is someone who there is a command to mourn, i.e. a close relative.;)
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> The source of this prohibition is G‑d's statement,;) "He shall not come into [a tent containing] any dead body."
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> If he makes himself tameh — even for his father or mother — he is punished by lashes.
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> Footnotes
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> I.e. father, mother, son, daughter, brother or sister.
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> Lev. 21:11.