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With regard to anything that by rabbinic law requires entry into water, i.e., either immersion or ritual washing of the hands, although it is pure by Torah law, it is accorded second-degree impurity. Therefore, such an item renders sacrificial food impure, meaning that the sacrificial food becomes
And the Rabbis prohibit items that require entry into water from coming in contact with second-tithe produce, as they hold that the produce is thereby rendered impure. According to the Rabbis, the status of second-tithe produce is more stringent than that of non-sacred food, and second-tithe produce
Rav Shimi bar Ashi objects to this interpretation of that Mishnah. From where is it clear that it is contact that the Rabbis prohibit? Perhaps the Rabbis disagree with R' Meir only with regard to a person with second-degree impurity partaking of second-tithe produce. But with regard to contact of an
And this case in the Mishnah is a case involving contact with the flesh of the slaughtered animal, from the fact that it teaches: They may be eaten with ritually impure hands, in the passive form, and not: One may eat them with impure hands. Are we not dealing with a case where another with impure
Rather Rav Pappa said: Here, in the Mishnah, we are dealing with hands that are impure with first-degree ritual impurity, which render even non-sacred food impure. And the Mishnah is in accordance with the opinion of R' Shimon ben Elazar, as it is taught in a baraita: In those cases where hands hav