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הבגד מטמא

The cloth can become tamei

for (being) three by three (handbreadths)

for midras,

and for (being) three by three (fingerbreadths)

for tumah from a corpse.

The sackcloth,

four by four (handbreadths; as stated below this applies to both midras and the tumah of a corpse);

the hide

five by five;

matting (which is woven of reeds or another material with the status of wood),

six by six;

equally for midras and the tumah of a corpse.

Rabbi Meir says

the sackcloth,

its remnants with four (i.e. this measure applies to a complete item of sackcloth that deteriorated or was torn, but still has four square handbreadths of material remaining; however it must have at some time been a finished piece of material),

and its outset is from when it is finished (if the piece of sackcloth was not finished being woven, even if larger than four square handbreadths, is not susceptible to tumah.)

העושה

One who makes (a piece of material by combining two different materials),

two (square handbreadths worth) from cloth (which has the minimum measure of three square handbreadths)

and one from sackcloth (which has the minimum measure of four square handbreadths),

(or) three from sackcloth

and one from hide (which has the minimum measure of five square handbreadths),

four from hide

and one from matting (which has the minimum measure of six square handbreadths),

is tahor;

five from matting

and one from hide,

four from hide

and one from sackcloth,

three from sackcloth

and one from cloth,

is tamei;

this is the rule

all that has attached to it

from something more stringent than it (that is, a material with a smaller minimum size),

is tamei,

from something more lenient than it

is tahor.