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and the milk of a woman who is a zava transmit impurity of liquids where there is 1/4th-log. The saliva, gonorrhea-like discharge of a zav, and urine transmit severe impurity in any amount.
And if you say in accordance with the opinion of Rava that the location from which the milk emerges is considered a spring, then milk also should transmit severe impurity in any amount, like the gonorrhea-like discharge of a zav and his saliva. Rather, conclude from it that the location from which
The Talmud objects: If so, this Mishnah in Makhshirin cited earlier (13a), which Rava said supports his opinion, is difficult, as it states that a woman’s milk renders food susceptible to impurity whether it emerged to the satisfaction of the infant or not to his satisfaction. The Mishnah is diffi
The Talmud explains: Do you maintain that the term: Not to their satisfaction, that the Mishnah states, means that the emergence of the milk is not amenable to him? No; rather, what is the meaning of the expression: Not to his satisfaction, that the Mishnah states? It means that the child did not
The Mishnah teaches that if one ate 1/4th-loaf of ritually impure foods or drank 1/4th-log of ritually impure liquids, or if one drank 1/4th-log of wine, and he entered the Temple and remained there for the time it takes to eat a half-loaf of bread, he is liable. The Talmud objects: Why do I need hi