Study Bava Kamma folio 101B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
The Talmud states that Rava raises a contradiction: We learned in a Mishnah (Orla 3:1): A garment that one dyed with dye extracted from peels of orla must be burned. Apparently, the change in appearance precipitated by the orla peels is considered a significant matter, and the dye retains its stat
The Mishnah continues: If the blood was absorbed in a garment, it is examined, and if the garment is washed and 1/4th-log of blood emerges from it, it is ritually impure, and the garment imparts ritual impurity to the vessels in the house as well. But if not, i.e., if less than 1/4th-log of blo
The Talmud presents an answer. Rav Kahana said: A halakha from among the leniencies applied to the measurements of 1/4th-log was taught here, as the Mishnah is written in reference to the blood of submission that is discharged from a body at the time of death, and such blood is ritually impure by
§ Having cited a contradiction raised by Rava, the Talmud proceeds to cite another. Rava raises another contradiction. We learned in a Mishnah (Shevi’it 7:1): Concerning plants from among the species that are used as dyes, for example the sefiḥin, i.e., produce that grew without being intentionall
And raise a contradiction from a baraita: With regard to reed leaves and vine leaves that one piled for storage upon the field, if he gathered them for eating, they are subject to the sanctity of the Sabbatical Year; if he gathered them for use as wood, e.g., for kindling a fire, they are not subj