Trivia Question

YT: Sotah’s not in public. I don’t think the public gets to see her. Also, it’s not her obligation. The Mishnah says that if she was pretty the Kohanim wouldn’t do parts of the ordeal.

PBA: Obviously, Pikuach Nefesh is Doche everything. I meant a specific case where the Din would necessitate it.

Squeak: I am not familiar with all of the Gemaros in Sotah, but I’ll take your word for it that they invited people in.

And your case is only true if you hold by Rav Schachter. The Rokeach brought down by the Shach and other later Poskim specifically says that someone pregnant by a Kohen is allowed to enter a cemetery because there’s a S’fek S’feka (maybe it won’t be a Bar Kayam and maybe it will be a girl). Some of the later Achronim say that the Rokeach can’t be talking about that, it’s a Taharah B’luah anyway. They say it must mean that she’s about to go into labor, and still the Rokeach says she can enter a cemetery. Rav Schachter, in B’ikvei Hatzon, explains the Rokeach’s Shittah and why it can be understood Kipshuto, and then says that since Bizman Hazeh it’s a Safek which is Efshar Livrurei B’kal by a sonogram that the Heter of the Rokeach would no longer apply and that she cannot be in a house with a Meis. So according to Rav Schachter, there’s a second answer. You are correct. There is one answer that should be Muskam by everyone, however.

2Scents: No, because we say that staying in the room with a Meis is an Issur of Kum V’asei and not Shev V’al Ta’aseh. So she’d be Mechuyav to leave. But what’s the case in which a woman cannot be in a room with a Meis?

Shatnez is a correct answer. The only answer, I believe, as to when she is specifically allowed to leave her house in such a condition is if she is a Nezirah and there is a Meis in the house.

Toi: The Mechaber and Rama both Pasken that the Kohanim need to have their burial spots at the end of the cemetery. The Rama explains because even though the Kohanim can go through Tumah to bury them, they can’t go through the cemetery on the way out. If what you’re saying is true then there’s no reason they can’t leave the cemetery the long way once the relative is buried.

Toi: We consider just being in a cemetery as an act of being actively M’tamei. And in your scenario with the Kohen it’s different because that’s a Meis that he can be M’tamei to, Mah She’ein Kein Hacha. If there was a Meis Mitzvah in the house, then maybe she wouldn’t have to leave for a second Meis in the house. But not just if she was already being M’tamei.