Audio by Michael Sokolow

Mishnah Negaim 8:4: Any spreading over the tips of those limbs whose spreading purifies what is impure, when they return [from being covered] they are impure. Any returning of the tips of those limbs [from being covered] whose returning makes impure what is pure, if they were covered [again], he becomes pure. If they [then] became revealed, he becomes impure, even [if this were repeated] one hundred times.

כָּל פְּרִיחַת רָאשֵׁי אֵבָרִים שֶׁבִּפְרִיחָתָן טִהֲרוּ טָמֵא, כְּשֶׁיַּחְזְרוּ טְמֵאִים. כָּל חֲזִירַת רָאשֵׁי אֵבָרִים שֶׁבַּחֲזִירָתָם טִמְּאוּ טָהוֹר, נִתְכַּסּוּ, טָהוֹר. נִתְגַּלּוּ, טָמֵא, אֲפִלּוּ מֵאָה פְעָמִים:

Mishnah Negaim 8:5: Any [part of the body] that is valid for making the Nega of the Baheret impure prevents the spreading [over the entire body from making him pure]. Any [part of the body] that is not valid for making the Nega of the Baheret impure does not prevent the spreading [over the entire body from making him pure]. How so? [If] it spread over his entire [body] but not over his head or his beard [or] his boil, burn or blister that is unhealed [making him pure], and [then] his head or beard returned and balded, or the boil, burn or healing-resistant blister [returned] and developed a scab, they are [still] pure. [If] it spread over his entire [body] but not over the [area the size of] half a lentil that is adjacent to his head or his beard, or his boil, burn or blister [and then] his head or beard returned and balded, or his boil, burn, or blister [returned] and developed a scab, even if the spot of the healthy skin [that is half a lentil wide] became a Baheret, he is impure until it spreads over everything [including the newly opened areas].

כֹּל הָרָאוּי לִטַּמֵּא בְנֶגַע הַבַּהֶרֶת, מְעַכֵּב אֶת הַפְּרִיחָה. כֹּל שֶׁאֵינוֹ רָאוּי לִטַּמֵּא בְנֶגַע הַבַּהֶרֶת, אֵינוֹ מְעַכֵּב אֶת הַפְּרִיחָה. כֵּיצַד. פָּרְחָה בְכֻלּוֹ, אֲבָל לֹא בָרֹאשׁ וּבַזָּקָן, בַּשְּׁחִין, בַּמִּכְוָה וּבַקֶּדַח הַמּוֹרְדִין, חָזַר הָרֹאשׁ וְהַזָּקָן וְנִקְרְחוּ, הַשְּׁחִין וְהַמִּכְוָה וְהַקֶּדַח וְנַעֲשׂוּ צָרֶבֶת, טְהוֹרִים. פָּרְחָה בְכֻלּוֹ, אֲבָל לֹא בְכַחֲצִי עֲדָשָׁה הַסָּמוּךְ לָרֹאשׁ וְלַזָּקָן, לַשְּׁחִין, לַמִּכְוָה, וְלַקֶּדַח, חָזַר הָרֹאשׁ וְהַזָּקָן וְנִקְרְחוּ, הַשְּׁחִין וְהַמִּכְוָה וְהַקֶּדַח וְנַעֲשׂוּ צָרֶבֶת, אַף עַל פִּי שֶׁנַּעֲשָׂה מְקוֹם הַמִּחְיָה בַּהֶרֶת, טָמֵא, עַד שֶׁתִּפְרַח בְּכֻלּוֹ:

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