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about the ritual impurity of the priest’s home, i.e., his wife. This is done lest he become impure through sex with a menstruating woman, which is ritual impurity lasting 7 days. Therefore, he is removed from his home for 7 days.
R' Yoḥanan said to Reish Lakish: Granted, according to my opinion, that I derive the halakha of sequestering from the inauguration, that explains that which is taught in the baraita: With regard to both this priest engaged in the burning of the red heifer and that High Priest prior to Yom Kippur,
Reish Lakish said to him: And according to your reasoning, does it work out well? At the inauguration, the sprinkling was with blood; here, the sprinkling was with water. R' Yoḥanan answered: That is not difficult, as R' Ḥiyya taught: Water replaced blood, but both have the status of sprinkling
§ The Talmud comments: A baraita was taught in accordance with the opinion of R' Yoḥanan that the sequestering is derived from the inauguration; and a baraita was taught in accordance with the opinion of Reish Lakish that it is derived from Sinai. The Talmud elaborates: A baraita was taught in accor
And throughout the generations as well, the High Priest withdraws 7 days prior to Yom Kippur and serves one day. And two Torah scholars from among the students of Moses, to the exclusion of Sadducees, who are not students of Moses, transmit the Torah guidelines to him all 7 days in order to train