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The purification waters are nullified in its innards and do not impurify the meat of the cow. And if it enters your mind that it was from his ruling with regard to liquids transmitting impurity to vessels by Torah law that R' Yehuda retracted his opinion, but with regard to foods he holds in accorda
The Talmud elaborates: Although these waters do not transmit a severe form of ritual impurity to a person or vessel that comes into contact with them, in any event let them transmit a lesser form of impurity to food that comes into contact with them. R' Yehuda’s ruling with regard to the purificatio
The Talmud rejects this contention: What, too, is the meaning of R' Yehuda’s phrase: They are nullified in its innards? It means that they are nullified only from a severe form of impurity. However, according to R' Yehuda, the purification waters transmit a lesser form of impurity. This proves by
The Talmud answers: The entire Mishnah is in accordance with the opinion of R' Yehuda, and the Mishnah is incomplete and is teaching the following: With regard to a cow that drank the purification waters, its flesh is impure. In what case is this statement said? It is said with regard to a lesser
Rav Ashi said: Actually, it is possible to explain that the waters are nullified in its innards entirely from any type of impurity, as this issue is unrelated to the question of whether the impurity of liquids is by Torah law or rabbinic law. Rather, this halakha is due to the fact that purificatio