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and it is written there with regard to the red heifer: “Whoever touches the corpse of a man who died and is not sprinkled, he will have contaminated the Tabernacle of God…he will be impure, his impurity is still upon him” (Numbers 19:13). This verbal analogy teaches that just as there the verse is r
The Talmud asks: But if so, why do I need the term “through which” (Leviticus 5:3)? The Talmud earlier derived from this term that one who is impure and unwittingly eats teruma is not liable to bring a sliding-scale offering. The Talmud has now derived that the sliding-scale offering atones specific
The Talmud answers: The term “through which” serves to include one who was rendered impure by eating the unslaughtered carcass of a kosher bird. Unlike other impure items, which render impure any person who touches them, the carcass of a kosher bird renders a person impure only if he eats it. There
The Talmud challenges: But didn’t you say above that the term “through which” is a restriction? How can you now use it to include additional cases? The Talmud explains: It is precisely because it is a restriction that it includes additional cases. As it is written at the beginning of that verse: “O
§ The Mishnah continues: For cases in which one had awareness at the beginning, but then transgressed during a lapse of awareness and still had no awareness at the end, the goat whose blood presentation is performed inside the Sanctuary on Yom Kippur, and Yom Kippur itself, suspend any punishment