The
entire first section of the Parsha is about the Avodas Yom Hakippurim that was
done in preparation of Yom Kippur. As you have heard on Monday and Thursday,
the Kohen Gadol is told 16:6 (וְכִפֶּר בַּעֲדוֹ, וּבְעַד בֵּיתוֹ). The Kohen Gadol has to bring a Kapparah
for himself and for his family.
The
Gemara in the beginning of Maseches Yoma Darshuns from here that the Kohen
Gadol must be married, he must have a family for which to ask forgiveness. (ר' יהודה אומר אף אשה אחרת מתקינין לו שמא תמות אשתו שנאמר (ויקרא טז) וכפר בעדו ובעד
ביתו ביתו זו אשתו). He is only
allowed to have one wife because (ביתו זו אשתו) is in the singular. The Gemara therefore explains
what would be done if the Kohen Gadol’s wife were to die on Yom HaKippurim. The
Mishna explains that they would prepare for him another wife in case his
original wife would pass away on Yom Kippur because if she would die, then he
would be ineligible to do the Avoda on Yom Kippur and a Kohen Hedyot would not
be allowed to do the Avoda either.
So how
does it work that they prepare for him another wife? It is a Machlokes in the
Gemara. If one looks in the Rambam, he says that they would prepare for him a
woman who would be willing to marry him and he would be willing to marry her.
If his wife were to die on Yom Kippur then the Kohen Gadol would marry her on
Yom Kippur. They would need Kiddushin and Nisuin because she has to be fully
married to him. Therefore the Rambam says that he would do that on Yom
Hakippurim.
Many of
you will remember from when we learned Maseches Kesuvos and Maseches Kiddushin
that we discussed the different Shittas of what Chuppah is. Kiddushin, the
Mishnah says in Kiddushin the first Mishnah (האשה
נקנית בשלש דרכים וקונה את עצמה בשתי דרכים נקנית בכסף בשטר ובביאה). Chuppah however, is not something that
is explained in the Mishnah. So there are different Rishonim who have different
opinions of what constitutes a Chuppah. Some of them are: 1) the canopy that we
use for the Chuppah, 2) the veil that the Kallah wears, Or the Rambam’s Shitta
3) that it has to be a private room that there is possible to have intimacy
there in order for the Nisuin to be Chal. In other words, the Yichud room.
The Ran
asks a Kasha on the Rambam. The Rambam says that the Kohen Gadol will get
married on Yom Kippur. How can that be? Yom Kippur is a day on which there is
an Issur of Tashmish Hamitah and the Rambam’s Shitta is that the Kohen Gadol
would get married on Yom Kippur. The Rambam’s Shitta is also that there has to
be a Yichud Haraui L’biya and how can this be if Tashmish Hamitah is Assur on
Yom Kippur?
I want
to remind you briefly of the Shitta of Rav Naftali Trop (1871–September
24, 1928) in his
Chiddushei Ha Granat that there are 2 levels of Yichud, one that is a Yichud
Haraui L’biya (that is a complete Nisuin) and one that is not a Yichud Haraui
L’biya (which is a Nisuin for certain things). It answers numerous problems of
the Rambam. We discussed it in Shiur in Maseches Kesuvos on 2a on the bottom,
so pull out your notes and review them and I hope you will have a Geshmak from
it. This is one aspect of the Avoda of Yom Hakippurim.
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