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Daily Mitzvah (Rambam)

Day 333: Negative Commandment 167

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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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