Translation:Mishnah/Seder Moed/Tractate Yoma/Chapter 1/1
Introduction
[edit]Hebrew Text
[edit]שבעת ימים קודם ליום הכיפורים
מפרישין כוהן גדול מביתו ללשכת פלהדרין
ומתקינין לו כוהן אחר תחתיו שמא יארע בו פסול
רבי יהודה אומר
אף אישה אחרת מתקינין לו שמא תמות אשתו
שנאמר וכיפר בעדו ובעד ביתו ביתו היא אשתו
אמרו חכמים אם כן אין לדבר סוף
English Translation
[edit]Seven days before the Day of Atonement,
we sequester the High Priest from his house to the Palhedrin Chamber,
and we prepare for him another priest in his place, [for] perhaps there will occur in him a disqualification.
Rabbi Yehuda says:
We even prepare another wife for him, [for] perhaps his wife will die;
as it is said, "and he shall atone for himself and for his household" - his "household" is his wife.
The Sages said: If so, there is no end to the matter.