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lest one come to pick up the vessel in his hand and carry it 4 cubits in the public domain to a mikveh. Abaye said to Rabba: If one has a pit full of water of a mikveh in his courtyard, so that this decree should not apply, what is there to say? Rabba said to him: The rabbis issued a decree again
Abaye posed another challenge: This works out well with regard to Shabbat, but with regard to a Festival, when there is no prohibition against carrying from one domain to another, what is there to say? Rabba replied: The rabbis issued a decree that it is prohibited to immerse a vessel on a Festiv
The Talmud asks: And do we issue a decree in such a case? But didn’t we learn in the Mishnah: And Beit Shammai and Beit Hillel both agree that one may bring ritually impure water into contact with ritually pure water in stone vessels in order to purify the water. However, one may not immerse the imp
The Talmud rejects this challenge: And how can you understand that there is substance to this question? If he has other good, ritually pure, water to drink, why do I need to bring this ritually impure water into contact with the ritually pure water? Rather, one must say that he does not have suita
Abaye raised an objection from the following baraita: One may draw water from a spring or a mikveh on a Festival with a ritually impure pail, and the pail becomes ritually pure because while being filled with water, the bucket is completely immersed in the mikveh. And if it is so that the rabbis iss