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On our daf Reish Lakish raises the following question: What is the status of a ba’al mum who is tameh – ritually defiled? Should we say that the Torah included a ba’al mum under all circumstances, even if he cannot actually eat from the sacrifice at this moment, or, perhaps, the fact that he is ritually defiled and cannot eat will preclude him from receiving a portion?
Rabba clarifies this issue by quoting a baraita that teaches that in the case of the High Priest who is allowed to perform the Temple service even when he is in acute mourning for a parent, nevertheless he cannot partake from the meat of that sacrifice.
We explore the ritual psychological and neuro-biology of acute grief and mourning.