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The Talmud comments: It can be derived by inference that both Abaye and Rava hold that impurity is overridden in cases involving the public and is not entirely permitted.
The Talmud returns to discussing Ulla’s statement that partial entry of a ritually impure individual is considered entry: Let us say that a baraita (Tosefta, Nega’im 8:10) supports Ulla’s opinion: Concerning all the cases of placing hands that were there in the Temple, I say about them that the prin
This is so except for this case of a metzora who places hands on his guilt offering, which was done in the threshold of the Nicanor Gate and not in the Temple courtyard where the guilt offering was slaughtered. The reason for this is that a metzora cannot enter the courtyard until they sprinkle from
Rav Yosef said: There is no proof from here, as in accordance with whose opinion is this baraita? It is in accordance with the opinion of R' Yosei, son of R' Yehuda, who says that the northern side of the courtyard in which it is permitted to slaughter offerings of the most sacred order, which incl
The Talmud suggests: But let an opening [pishpash] be made in the northern courtyard wall facing the altar, where the metzora can insert his hands. The Talmud explains: Abaye and Rava both say that such structural changes cannot be made to the Temple, since the verse states with regard to the Temple