From what age should a Kohen be prevented from becoming impure
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Question
From what age should care be taken not to bring a young Kohen into a hospital to prevent impurity from a corpse?
Answer
From birth
Source
Mishna Berura, Siman 343, Siftei Chachamim 3: "To bring him into a house where there is impurity, and also to feed him other forbidden things is prohibited even to an infant who does not yet understand, as we will write later. Nevertheless, a pregnant wife of a Kohen, whose time to give birth is near, is permitted to enter a tent with a corpse, because although it seems to us that she will certainly give birth to a child there, and perhaps it will be a boy and he will become impure there, it is still permitted because there is a doubt: perhaps it will be a girl or stillborn."
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