Keeping Dry

In the mishna in Yoma it says that when the Kohen Gadol came out of the mikva on Yom Kippur, he would dry off and so paskened the Rambam [Hil. Yom HaKippurim]. This halacha spawned a great deal of literature trying to understand why it is important that the Kohen Gadol dry off. Some felt that the issue was that the water would constitute a chatzitza between the clothing of the Kohen Gadol and his body. We could talk about this all day... but we won't:-).

At last night's weekly daf yomi shiur bi-iyun asked the Rebbe Shlita: Why is there no halacha anywhere that a regular Kohen must dry off before putting on his bigdei kehuna?? Why only a Kohen Gadol on Yom Kippur??


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