{"id":44615,"date":"2018-11-26T18:38:10","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T16:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=44615"},"modified":"2022-06-20T18:18:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T15:18:50","slug":"the-seclusion-of-the-priests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-seclusion-of-the-priests\/","title":{"rendered":"The Seclusion Of The Priests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[631,742,354],"acf":{"old_id":"44615","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33923,"related_cahpter":"98","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Seven days of preparation and purity","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After the description of the Tabernacle\u2019s construction in the book of Leviticus, we are told of the ceremony that inaugurates Aaron and his sons into the priesthood (ch 8). Moses dresses them in the priestly vestments and anoints them with the sacred oil, after which they bring special inaugural offerings. They are then secluded inside the Tabernacle for a period of seven days. According to the Talmud Yerushalmi, these seven days parallel the week of Moses\u2019 ascent to Mount Sinai, as described in the book of Exodus (24:16).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To this description of the inauguration the Torah appends the words, \u201cAs was done on this day, so the Lord has commanded to be done, to make atonement for you\u201d (Lev. 8:34). The <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sifra <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(cited by Rashi) derives from this verse that there are two other situations in which these seven days of seclusion are to continue to be observed: the week leading up to Yom Kippur, and the days prior to the burning of the red heifer, which purifies one who has become ritually impure through contact with a dead body.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Mishna (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Para<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 3:1; <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yoma <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">8a\u2013b;) states that during the week leading up to Yom Kippur, the High Priest is purified using the ashes of the red heifer, a process that takes seven days to complete. This may suggest that, besides evoking the inauguration days, this period also serves to shore against the risk that contact with a corpse may have rendered the High Priest impure, and therefore unfit for service. Should this have happened, perhaps without his knowledge, the week of separation and the ritual of the red heifer would be enough to purify him again. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Excerpted from the <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Koren Yom Kippur Machzor<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","image":false,"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"The Seclusion Of The Priests","main_caption":"As was done on this day, so the Lord has commanded to be done, to make atonement for you","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"Seven days of preparation and purity","preview_embedded":"","preview_image":false,"preview_video":"","external_link":"","link_for_pay":false,"tile_gallery_items":false,"credits":""},"alternate_tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"","hide_media":false},"tile_group":{"preview_image_url":false,"main_caption":"","sub_caption":"","":null,"popup_package_extra_content":"","read_time":""},"home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo":{"seo_title":"","seo_description":"","seo_default_title":"","seo_default_description":""},"links":false,"send_noty":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44615"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105871,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44615\/revisions\/105871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}