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With regard to one who kills a High Priest or a High Priest who killed a person, he never departs from the city of refuge. Therefore, I will say that a High Priest is not exiled at all. For that reason, the baraita above teaches us that he is exiled. The Talmud suggests: Why not say that the halakh
The baraita teaches that a High Priest transgresses a positive mitzva and a prohibition. The Talmud understands the baraita as an independent statement asserting that the High Priest must transgress a positive mitzva and a prohibition, and asks: Is it not possible that he doesn’t transgress a posit
The Talmud asks: Isn’t that obvious? The Talmud responds: No, as it could enter your mind to say that since we learned in the Mishnah (2a): The court judges cases involving an entire tribe that sinned, or a false prophet, or a High Priest, only on the basis of a court of 71 judges, i.e., the Great
The Talmud suggests: But why not say that indeed, the halakha is that all cases involving the High Priest must be adjudicated in a court of 71? The Talmud rejects this. Is it written: The matters of a great person? “Every great matter” is written, meaning actually a great matter, one involving a
§ The Mishnah teaches that the High Priest testifies before the court and others testify concerning him. The Talmud expresses surprise: He testifies? But isn’t it taught in a baraita that in the verse: “You shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep wandering and ignore them; you shall return the