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Laws of the Impurity of Garments
Laws of Impurity and Purity
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A
Rav Yosef said: From where do I say this
halakha
?
For these Persians eat pieces of
roasted
meat [
tabahakki
] without bread,
which shows that meat itself is a food.
Abaye said to him: But are the Persians a majority of the world?
The
halakha
follows the customary practice of most of the world and not that of particular locales.
Didn’t we learn
the following in a
baraita
?
Clothing of the poor,
i.e., pieces of cloth measuring three by three fingerbreadths…
Eruvin 29b:15
Rav Adda bar Ahava raises an objection
based upon a mishna (
Kelim
28:8):
The
particularly
thick
garments
and the soft
garments
are not subject to
the standard measure of
three by three
fingerbreadths, with regard to determining their susceptibility to becoming ritually impure. Because of their particular qualities, such garments are useful only when they are larger and are not considered significant items when they measure three by three. Since the High Priest’s robe is a thick garment…
Zevachim 95a:5
The Gemara
raises an objection
against Rava from a
baraita
discussing ritual impurity that is contracted by treading: If
a scarf is ritually impure
with impurity imparted by
treading,
e.g., after a
zav
sat or lay down upon it,
and
its owner then
designated it
as a cover
for
a Torah
scroll,
it is
pure of
the more severe level of ritual impurity, that which is imparted by
treading,
even without immersion, because it is no longer an object intended to be lied on or sat upon…
Sanhedrin 48a:4
The Gemara relates:
Rabbi Yoḥanan ben Nuri stood on his feet and,
contrary to this statement,
said: And what shall the people of Babylonia, who have only sesame oil, do? And what shall the people of Media, who have only nut oil, do? And what shall the people of Alexandria, who have only radish oil, do? And what shall the people of Cappadocia, who have neither this nor that but only naphtha, do? Rather, you have
a prohibition
only
with regard to those substances with regard to
which the Sages said: One may not light with them.
All other oils are permitted…
Shabbat 26a:7-26b:3
The Gemara asks:
What
is the practical difference
between
the opinions of Rabbi Yehuda and Rabbi Elazar? Is there an item that is fit to become ritually impure, but is not actually susceptible to impurity?
Abaye said: A patch
of cloth
less than three
by three fingerbreadths presents a practical difference
between
the two opinions. According to
the one who says
that any garment
fit
to become ritually impure must be laundered,
this
patch of cloth
is also fit
to become ritually impure,
as if
the owner
wants…
Zevachim 94a:2
If
one placed it in a box, everyone agrees
that it can become
ritually impure
because his placing the cloth in a box indicates that he considers the cloth significant and is keeping it in order to use it.
They only disagreed
in a case
where one hung
the garment
on a dryer,
i.e., a stake in the wall,
or where he placed it behind a door. Rabbi Eliezer held: From
the fact that
he did not throw it in the garbage
dump,
it is
certainly
on his mind
and he is planning to use it…
Shabbat 29b:1
So too, a piece of cloth
three by three
handbreadths in size
is susceptible to ritual impurity
imparted by
treading,
but a piece of cloth
three by three
handbreadths
less one hair [
nima
] is not susceptible to ritual impurity
imparted by
treading.
Rosh Hashanah 13a:6
from where does Rabbi Shimon ben Elazar
derive that it can become ritually impure? The Gemara answers: In his opinion, it
is derived from
the verse that speaks of the ritual impurity of creeping animals:
“Or a garment,
or skin, or sack” (Leviticus 11:32). The additional “or” comes to include items that are not generally included in the definition of garment.
As it was taught
in a
baraita
: From the fact that it says
garment, I have
derived
nothing other
than
a
whole
garment…
Shabbat 27a:1
Similarly, food in the volume of
an egg-bulk transmits the ritual impurity of food,
while food in the volume of
an egg-bulk less
a small amount equal to the volume of
a sesame
seed
does not transmit impurity of food.
Similarly, a garment that is
three by three
handbreadths
is susceptible to ritual impurity
imparted by
treading
if a man who experiences a gonorrhea-like discharge [
zav
] sits or lies on it, while if it is
three by three
handbreadths
less one thread,
a tiny measurement…
Menachot 103b:17
Rava said, this is the reasoning
behind
Rabbi Eliezer’s
opinion with regard to lighting the wick:
Because
he holds
that one may neither light
on Shabbat
using a wick that is not
slightly
singed
and prepared for lighting
nor light with rags that were not singed
before Shabbat. If a person singes the wick slightly before lighting it, it will burn well. A wick that has not been singed does not burn well and will not show the appropriate deference to Shabbat…
Shabbat 29a:2
Similarly,
the Sages taught
in a
baraita
:
A woven fabric of any size
can become
ritually impure, and an ornament of any size
can become
ritually impure.
An object that is half
woven
fabric
and
half
ornament
of
any size
can become
ritually impure.
And
a sack is added
to the category of
garment; it
too
is ritually impure due to woven fabric.
Shabbat 63b:18
What is the minimum measure for a cloth to contract impurity? Three handbreadths by three handbreadths to contract the impurity of a support for a
zav
, precisely three fingerbreadths by three fingerbreadths together with the loose hanging strands to contract the impurity stemming from a human corpse or other types of impurity.
With regard to what does the above apply? To clothes of wool or flax. If, however, clothes were made from other fabrics, they do not contract any type of impurity unless they are three handbreadths by three handbreadths…
Mishneh Torah, Vessels 22
Laws of Impurity and Purity
דיני טומאה וטהרה
Laws of Contracting Impurity from a Corpse
Laws of Impurity of Tombs and Burial
Laws of Impurity of a Tent Containing a Corpse
Laws of Prevention of Impurity in a Tent Containing a Corpse
Laws of Processing the Red Heifer
Laws of Kiddush Mei Chatat
Laws of Purification by Mei Chatat
Laws of Tsara'at of a Person
Laws of the Impurity of a Metsora and His Purification
Laws of Tsara'at of Clothing
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