Parshas Acharei (Rebroadcast)
The Parsha Podcast - With Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe
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The High Priest
In the second temple era, there was ac option in the office of the high priest. The sadducees that sedoke him would pawn it off and sell it to the highest bidder. So you have an instance where someone who is a cohan, but righteous coain, they become the high Priest. Many of them, they rejected the principles of oftora, and consequently they would tincker with the procedures of the oom kipper. And indeed, they would die, as the tour predicts. It's quite implicit over here that the high priest will indeed die.
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