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#In cases of a pressing need, a kohen is allowed to visit someone who is sick in the hospital outside of Israel.<ref>Rav Moshe Feinstein (Igrot Moshe Y.D. 2:166) says we can follow the majority that any corpse or limbs will be of a non-Jew which strictly speaking are not mitamay b'ohel. However, he notes that you should try and find out if there are any Jewish corpses at the time as that would be a problem. See also Chelkat Yaakov, YD 215.</ref> | #In cases of a pressing need, a kohen is allowed to visit someone who is sick in the hospital outside of Israel.<ref>Rav Moshe Feinstein (Igrot Moshe Y.D. 2:166) says we can follow the majority that any corpse or limbs will be of a non-Jew which strictly speaking are not mitamay b'ohel. However, he notes that you should try and find out if there are any Jewish corpses at the time as that would be a problem. See also Chelkat Yaakov, YD 215.</ref> | ||
#A kohen is permitted to live outside the land of Israel.<ref>The Gemora Shabbat 15a tells us that Shimon ben Shetach decreed that outside the land of Israel has the status of tumas meis. The Shach Y.D. 369:2 and Taz Y.D. 369:4 suggest that this is a stringency that doesn't apply nowadays as the laws of tumah and tahara are not practiced. Rabbi Akiva Eiger (Y.D. 369 :1 s.v. v'chol) explains there is room to be lenient as this tumah is only Rabbinic in nature. Additionally, he suggests (s.v. HaKohen) that kohanim are relying on the minority opinion of the Ravaad that there is no issue for a Kohen to come into contact with a corpse if he is already tamay.</ref> | #A kohen is permitted to live outside the land of Israel.<ref>The Gemora Shabbat 15a tells us that Shimon ben Shetach decreed that outside the land of Israel has the status of tumas meis. The Shach Y.D. 369:2 and Taz Y.D. 369:4 suggest that this is a stringency that doesn't apply nowadays as the laws of tumah and tahara are not practiced. Rabbi Akiva Eiger (Y.D. 369 :1 s.v. v'chol) explains there is room to be lenient as this tumah is only Rabbinic in nature. Additionally, he suggests (s.v. HaKohen) that kohanim are relying on the minority opinion of the Ravaad that there is no issue for a Kohen to come into contact with a corpse if he is already tamay.</ref> | ||
# A kohen should not enter a non-Jew's house.<ref>Mishna Ohalot 18:7, Pesachim 9a. Tosfot Pesachim 9a quotes a Tosefta that it doesn't apply in the diaspora. Erech Lechem YD 372:2 codifies this. Rash Ohalot 18:7 writes that there's no tumah in the non-Jew's houses in the diaspora since anyway there's a tumah in all of diaspora. </ref> | |||
==Blocking Tumah of Corpse== | ==Blocking Tumah of Corpse== | ||
