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Mishnah: After conducting the search, one need not be concerned that perhaps a marten dragged leaven from house to house, or from place to place, placing leaven in a house that was already searched. As if so, one need also be concerned that perhaps leaven might have been dragged from courtyard to
Talmud: The Talmud infers from the Mishnah: The reason that one need not search again is that we did not see the marten drag the leaven from the house; however, if we saw the marten drag leaven from the house, we are indeed concerned that it dragged the leaven into the second house, and it therefor
The Talmud raises a difficulty: But why is this so? Let us say that the marten ate the bread it took. Didn’t we learn in a Mishnah: The residences of non-Jews are ritually impure, as their wives may have miscarried, and due to the fact that non-Jews would bury their stillborn babies in their houses
This Mishnah continues: And this decree applies even though the non-Jew resident has no wife. In issuing the decree, the rabbis did not distinguish between a married couple and a single man, so that people would not err in its application (Me’iri). And any place where a marten or a pig can enter un
R' Zeira said: This is not difficult, as in this case, where no search is required, it is referring to flesh, whereas in that case, where one is required to search again, it is referring to bread. R' Zeira elaborates: With regard to flesh, a marten does not leave remnants behind, and therefore