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is impurity vis-à-vis sacrificial food. The rabbis issued a decree that even one who is vigilant to partake of his teruma in a state of ritual purity is considered impure vis-à-vis one partaking of sacrificial food. Therefore, one who ate a food item that was prepared on the level of purity of terum
R' Zeira says that R' Asi says that R' Yoḥanan says that R' Yannai says: With regard to one who eats non-sacred food items that were prepared on the level of purity of sacrificial food, and these items had become impure with third-degree impurity, his body becomes impure with second-degree impurity
R' Zeira raised an objection to the statement of R' Asi from the statement of R' Yehoshua: One who eats food with third-degree impurity assumes second-degree impurity vis-à-vis sacrificial food but does not assume second-degree impurity vis-à-vis teruma. This is stated in the case of non-sacred foo
R' Asi said to R' Zeira: That inference is incorrect, as R' Yehoshua is speaking utilizing the style of: It is not necessary. It is not necessary to say that in the case of non-sacred food items that were prepared on the level of purity of sacrificial food, which is stringent, they have the capacit
The Talmud objects: But didn’t R' Yehoshua say to R' Eliezer according to the explanation that Rabba bar bar Ḥana said that R' Yoḥanan said: I too stated this only with regard to non-sacred food items that were prepared on the level of purity of teruma, indicating that he was not referring to non-s