Study Chagigah folio 21A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
An acute mourner [onen], i.e., someone who has experienced the loss of a close relative on that day, who had not come into contact with the deceased; and one who is lacking atonement, i.e., someone who still needs to bring an offering to complete his purification procedure, such as a zav or a woma
Talmud: It is taught in the Mishnah that one may not immerse one vessel inside another if they will be used for sacrificial food, though this may be done for teruma. The Talmud asks: With regard to sacrificial food, what is the reason that one may not immerse vessels in this manner? R' Ila said: Be
The Talmud poses a question on this explanation: But is it not so that since the latter clause of the Mishnah mentions that sacrificial foods and teruma differ with regard to matters of interposition, the first clause of the Mishnah must not be with regard to matters of interposition, but is referr
The Talmud answers: No, this is not necessarily so. In both the first clause and the latter clause of the Mishnah the concern is due to interposition, and it is nevertheless necessary to teach us both cases. For had the Mishnah taught us only the first clause, i.e., that one may not immerse one ves