LEV876 The Kohen Gadol shall not enter a tent where a corpse is present. As Hashem's servants in the Sanctuary, and as explained earlier, the Kohanim are placed on a uniquely high level of sanctity. For this reason, they must keep far away from spiritual impurity. As to regular Kohanim, however, the Torah take takes pity on them and allows them to defile themselves to pour out their hearts and souls and more in the deaths of close relatives. Although the Kohen Gadol, too, possesses a physical body, the Torah forbids him any spiritual defilement whatsoever. Due to his great degree of attachment to the spiritual and the sublime, his soul dwells in the spiritual realms even during his lifetime, so his nature differs from that of the rest of humanity. He makes his heart forget mundane life in the fleeting physical world. As a result, he does not feel the need to weep over the death of relatives, for he had set himself apart from them even while they were living.