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“And whoever touches one who is slain with a sword in the open field, or one who dies on his own, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean 7 days” (Numbers 19:16). The rabbis derived from the phrase: One who is slain with a sword, that the legal status of a metal sword in terms of its degree
The Talmud asks: And what impelled Rav Yehuda to establish the Mishnah as referring specifically to the case of a metal lamp? Let him establish it as referring specifically to the case of an earthenware lamp.
And if so, what does R' Akiva’s statement add? The Talmud answers: Whereas there, in R' Ḥanina’s testimony, he is referring to a case where one piece of ritually impure meat came into contact with another piece of impure meat, here, in R' Akiva’s testimony, he is referring to a case where oil tha
Rava said: The Mishnah was difficult for Rav Yehuda: Why did the tanna specifically teach the case of a lamp that became ritually impure with first-degree impurity through contact with one who became ritually impure with impurity imparted by a corpse? Let it teach that the lamp became impure by cont
Rather, what is the substance with regard to which there is a distinction between its impurity when exposed to impurity imparted by a corpse and its impurity when exposed to impurity imparted by a creeping animal? You must say that the substance is metal. A metal vessel that comes into contact with