וְאֵיזֶהוּ הַמָּשִׁיחַ, הַמָּשׁוּחַ בְּשֶׁמֶן הַמִּשְׁחָה, לֹא הַמְרֻבֶּה בִבְגָדִים. אֵין בֵּין כֹּהֵן הַמָּשׁוּחַ בְּשֶׁמֶן הַמִּשְׁחָה לִמְרֻבֶּה בְגָדִים אֶלָּא פַר הַבָּא עַל כָּל הַמִּצְוֹת. וְאֵין בֵּין כֹּהֵן מְשַׁמֵּשׁ לְכֹהֵן שֶׁעָבַר, אֶלָּא פַר יוֹם הַכִּפּוּרִים וַעֲשִׂירִית הָאֵיפָה. זֶה וָזֶה שָׁוִין בַּעֲבוֹדַת יוֹם הַכִּפּוּרִים, וּמְצֻוִּין עַל הַבְּתוּלָה, וַאֲסוּרִין עַל הָאַלְמָנָה, וְאֵינָן מִטַּמְּאִין בִּקְרוֹבֵיהֶן, וְלֹא פוֹרְעִין, וְלֹא פוֹרְמִין, וּמַחֲזִירִין אֶת הָרוֹצֵחַ:
Who is "the anointed one"? He who is anointed with the anointing oil, not him of the many garments. [After the flask of anointing oil was secreted, the high-priest would enter the high-priesthood by donning eight garments, viz. (Leviticus 21:10): "…and who has been invested to wear the garments."] There is no difference between the anointed (high-) priest and the many-garmented priest but the bullock that is offered for all of the mitzvoth, [the many-garmented priest not offering a bullock for his unwitting sins, it being written (in that regard) "the anointed priest." And there is no difference between the officiating (high-priest) and the deposed (high-priest) but the Yom Kippur bullock and the tenth of the ephah, (which are offered only by the officiating high-priest). And both are equal in the Yom Kippur service. [The service of the day is kasher only with the high-priest alone, and the officiating high-priest and the deposed high-priest are equal in that regard.] And they are both commanded (to wed only) a virgin, and they are forbidden (to wed) a widow, and they are not permitted to make themselves tamei for their (deceased) kin, and they are not permitted to let their hair grow long or to rend their clothing, [it being written in respect to the high-priest (Ibid.): "His hair he shall not grow long and his clothing he shall not rend."], and they return the (unwitting) slayer. [If one of them dies, the slayer returns from his city of refuge, as it is written (Numbers 35:25): "until the death of the high-priest."]
Tosefta Horayot
These are the differences between the High Priest and a common priest: The bull that is offered for [the inadvertent transgression of] any commandment, and the bull brought on Yom Kippur, and the tenth of the ephah (Hor. 3:4). [The High Priest does not] grow his hair long [when in mourning] and [he] does not rend his garments [in the way that ordinary mourners do]. But [the High Priest] rends his garments from below [when in mourning], and the common priest [rends his garments] from above. [The High Priest] is not rendered impure by the death of his close relatives; and he is commanded to marry a virgin; and his is forbidden to marry a widow; and [his death permits] the return of the [accidental] killer [from a city of refuge], and he may sacrifice [when he is] an onen (a mourner on the first day of mourning, before the burial), but he may not eat from sacrifices or take a portion of them [on that day]; and he has the first [right] to sacrifice; and he takes his portion [of the sacrifice] first; and all the services performed on Yom Kippur are not valid unless [performed] by him; and he is exempt from [bringing an offering for inadvertently rendering] impure the Temple or the sacred utensils. And all of these (i.e., the aforementioned list) are conducted by a former [High Priests wearing] many vestments [and not only to High Priests who were anointed, who served during the First Temple period]; except as to the bull offered for [the inadvertent transgression of] any commandment, and none of them apply to an anointed [High Priest] for war, except for the five things that were explained, as written in the chapter [on the High Priest, Lev. 21:10-15]: he does not let his hair grow long [when in mourning]; he does not rend [his garments in the way that ordinary mourners do]; he is not rendered impure by the death of his close relatives; and he is commanded to marry a virgin; and his is forbidden to marry a widow; and [his death permits] the return of the [accidental] killer [from a city of refuge], the words of Rabbi Meir. And the Sages say, [his death does not permit] the return of the [accidental] killer.
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