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Talmud: A dispute among amora’im was stated. Rabba said that Rav Huna said: The Torah stated a halakha involving a nazirite in a categorical verse: “He shall not become impure for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die” (Numbers 6:7). This includes all mann
And Rav Yosef says in the form of an oath: By God! Rav Huna actually says that he is separately liable even for contracting impurity from a corpse and again contracting impurity from a corpse, not only if he entered an enclosure with a corpse. As Rav Huna says: With regard to a nazirite who was sta
Abaye raised an objection to Rav Yosef from a baraita: With regard to a priest who had a corpse placed on his shoulder, and they extended his corpse, i.e., the corpse of his relative, to him, and similarly if they extended a different corpse to him and he touched it, one might have thought that he
Rav Yosef said to him: But if, as you claim, one is not liable for contracting one impurity after another, the Mishnah should pose a difficulty for you. As we learned in the Mishnah: If a nazirite became ritually impure from corpses many times all day, he is liable to receive only one set of lashes.
Rather, the Mishnah and baraita pose a difficulty for each other. The Talmud answers: This is not difficult, as here the baraita is referring to a concurrent contact with impurity, i.e., when he touched the second corpse he was still in contact with the first, so he is not liable for the second i