Mishnah Oholot 15:10: One who touches a dead body and then touches vessels or one who overshadows a dead body and then touches vessels, they are impure. If he overshadowed a dead body and then overshadowed the vessels or touched a dead body and then overshadowed the vessels, they are pure. If his hands have in them a handbreadth's space, they are impure. Two houses in which are two [pieces the size of] half an olive [of dead body], if he sticks both his hands into them, if his hands have in them a handbreadth's space, he spreads impurity, but if not, he does not spread impurity. |
הַנּוֹגֵעַ בְּמֵת וְהַנּוֹגֵעַ בְּכֵלִים, הַמַּאֲהִיל עַל הַמֵּת וְהַנּוֹגֵעַ בְּכֵלִים, טְמֵאִין. מַאֲהִיל עַל הַמֵּת וּמַאֲהִיל עַל הַכֵּלִים, הַנוֹגֵעַ בְּמֵת וּמַאֲהִיל עַל הַכֵּלִים, טְהוֹרִים. אִם יֵשׁ בְּיָדוֹ פוֹתֵחַ טֶפַח, טְמֵאִין. שְׁנֵי בָתִּים וּבָהֶן כִּשְׁנֵי חֲצָאֵי זֵיתִים, פָּשַׁט אֶת שְׁתֵּי יָדָיו לָהֶן, אִם יֵשׁ בְּיָדָיו פּוֹתֵחַ טֶפַח, מֵבִיא אֶת הַטֻּמְאָה. וְאִם לָאו, אֵינוֹ מֵבִיא אֶת הַטֻּמְאָה: |
Mishnah Oholot 16:1: All movable objects spread impurity when they are as thick as an ox goad. Rabbi Tarfon says, May I strike my children if this is [not] a stricken law which the listener heard but erred, when a farmer passed with an ox goad on his shoulder and one side of his overshadowed a grave and they declared him impure because of vessels which overshadow a dead body. Rabbi Akiva says, I will fix it so the words of the Sages will endure: Any movable object spreads impurity to a person carrying them if it is as thick as an ox goad, and on themselves if it is any thickness and on other people and vessels if it is a handbreadth's space. |
כָּל הַמִּטַּלְטְלִין מְבִיאִין אֶת הַטֻּמְאָה כָּעֳבִי הַמַּרְדֵּעַ. אָמַר רַבִּי טַרְפוֹן, אֲקַפַּח אֶת בָּנַי שֶׁזּוֹ הֲלָכָה מְקֻפַּחַת, שֶׁשָּׁמַע הַשּׁוֹמֵעַ, וְטָעָה, שֶׁהָאִכָּר עוֹבֵר וְהַמַּרְדֵּעַ עַל כְּתֵפוֹ, וְהֶאֱהִיל צִדּוֹ אֶחָד עַל הַקֶּבֶר, וְטִמְּאוּהוּ מִשּׁוּם כֵּלִים הַמַּאֲהִילִים עַל הַמֵּת. אָמַר רַבִּי עֲקִיבָא, אֲנִי אֲתַקֵּן שֶׁיְּהוּ דִבְרֵי חֲכָמִים קַיָּמִין, שֶׁיְּהוּ כָל הַמִּטַּלְטְלִין מְבִיאִין אֶת הַטֻּמְאָה עַל אָדָם הַנּוֹשְׂאָן בָּעֳבִי הַמַּרְדֵּעַ, וְעַל עַצְמָן בְּכָל שֶׁהֵן, וְעַל שְׁאָר אָדָם וְכֵלִים בְּפוֹתֵחַ טָפַח: |
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