Chullin 88A

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And both these and those, i.e., both liquids that issue from one who immersed himself that day and liquids he touches, do not impart ritual impurity. And with regard to all other sources of impurity, whether minor sources or major sources, liquids that issue from them have the same status as liquid

The Talmud analyzes the Mishnah: What is the meaning of minor sources and what is the meaning of major sources? What, is it not that the term: Minor sources, is referring to a creeping animal or a zav, and that the term: Major sources, is referring to a corpse? If so, the Mishnah teaches that all l

The Talmud asks: What is different with regard to a zav, concerning whom the rabbis decreed that liquids that issue from him are ritually impure, and what is different with regard to a corpse, concerning which the rabbis did not decree that liquids that issue from it are ritually impure? The Talmud

§ The Mishnah teaches that one is obligated to cover blood that spurts outside the pit over which the animal was slaughtered, or onto the wall, and blood that remained on the slaughtering knife. With regard to this halakha, A baraita states: The verse states: “And he shall cover it” (Leviticus 17:1

It is taught in another baraita: The term: “And he shall cover it,” teaches that one is obligated to cover all of the blood. From here the rabbis stated: With regard to blood that spurts out and blood that remains on the sides of the animal’s throat where it was slaughtered, one is obligated to cov