Related%20passage for Horayot 3:5

כֹּהֵן גָּדוֹל פּוֹרֵם מִלְּמַטָּה, וְהַהֶדְיוֹט מִלְמַעְלָה. כֹּהֵן גָּדוֹל מַקְרִיב אוֹנֵן וְלֹא אוֹכֵל, וְהַהֶדְיוֹט לֹא מַקְרִיב וְלֹא אוֹכֵל:

The high-priest rends from below [At the death of one of his kin for whom he is commanded to rend, he rends below at the corner of his garment near his feet. (As to "and his clothing he shall not rend," the meaning is that he shall not rend them as others do)], and the common priest, from above [near the chest, close to the shoulder, as others do.] A high-priest may sacrifice when he is an onein (mourner), but he may not eat. [If someone, one of whose seven close kin whom he is commanded to mourn for, dies, then for the entire day of death, whether or not he were buried, he is an "onein" according to the Torah. And from the day of death onward, so long as he has not been buried he is an onein all of that day according to the Rabbis, even after burial. And if he were buried on the day of his death, then all of the following night he is an onein according to the Rabbis. And a high-priest who is an onein may sacrifice but not eat [of the sacrifices], and a common priest may neither sacrifice nor eat. [For thus do we find with Aaron, that on the day Nadav and Avihu (his sons) died, he said (Leviticus 10:19): "And had I eaten the sin-offering this day, would it be good in the eyes of the L rd?" — the concern is only with the eating, not with the sacrificing. And this, only with Aaron, who was a high-priest; but his sons, who were common priests, were forbidden both to eat and to sacrifice on that day.]

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