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that are mingled, amei ha’aretz are trusted with regard to them during the period of the winepress and the olive press, and also up to 70 days before the winepress, for that is when people begin to purify their vessels in preparation for the wine-pressing season.
Talmud: The Mishnah teaches that amei ha’aretz are trusted with regard to the purity of sacrificial wine and oil in Judea. The Talmud infers: In Judea, yes, but in the Galilee, no. What is the reason for this distinction between the two places?
Reish Lakish said: It is because a strip of land inhabited by Samaritans [Kutim] separates between Judea and the Galilee, and it is impossible to travel from one land to the other without traversing this strip. The rabbis decreed that lands inhabited by non-Jewish nations are considered ritually im
The Talmud raises a difficulty: And let the residents of the Galilee place the wine and oil and transport it to Judea in a closed box, a chest, or a closet, whose contents cannot contract impurity, as they have the status of separate tents. The Talmud answers: In accordance with whose opinion is th
The Talmud raises a further difficulty: And let them bring oil and wine to the Temple in an earthenware vessel sealed with a tightly bound cover, which cannot contract impurity even if it is in the same tent as a corpse, as it states: “And every open vessel, which has no covering tightly bound upon