Study Zevachim folio 93B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
With regard to the statement that only blood that was collected in a vessel and is fit for sprinkling requires the laundering of the garment on which it sprayed, the Talmud asks: Why do I also need this? After all, it was already taught that if blood spilled from the neck onto the floor before it w
§ The Mishnah teaches: It is only with regard to blood that was received in a sacred vessel and is fit for sprinkling that the garment requires laundering. The Talmud asks: As it was already taught that when disqualified blood is sprayed on a garment, it does not require laundering, this reiteratio
This is as it is taught in a baraita: With regard to the sanctification of water of purification, R' Ḥalafta bar Shaul says: If a priest sanctified less than is sufficient for sprinkling in this vessel and less than is sufficient for sprinkling in that vessel, and he then mixed together the water
In a related issue, a dilemma was raised before the rabbis: If a priest did this for the blood of an internal sin offering, collecting less than is sufficient for sprinkling in each vessel and then mixing all the blood together, what is the halakha? Is R' Ḥalafta’s statement about the water of purif
Or, perhaps: What is the reason there, that the combined water of purification is not fit for sprinkling? It may be because it is written about sprinkling the water: “And dip it in the water” (Numbers 19:18), stressing that it is to be dipped in precisely the same water that was first placed in the