Judaism has very strict rules around human waste and separating God from such things. You may not even speak God's names within a restroom.
This leads to my question regarding the temple priesthood and how they handled issues of the human condition. In the event they had to use the restroom, did they quite literally have to come down from the mount to a specified area away from the temple or did they have a special location on or at the edge of the mount which allowed them to use restroom facilities?
This question may sound odd but I'm genuinely curious as to how such issues were handled.
