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and a shovel was in the basket, and he said: I am minding the basket, that it not become impure, but I am not minding the shovel, then the basket is pure, and the shovel is impure.
The Talmud challenges the ruling of the baraita: But wouldn’t the shovel render the basket impure? The Talmud answers: There is a principle that a vessel does not render another vessel ritually impure. The Talmud challenges: But wouldn’t the shovel render that which is in the basket, e.g., figs, i
The Talmud returns to discuss the contradiction between the Mishnah, which permits an acute mourner to touch sacrificial meat, and the Mishnah in tractate Ḥagiga, which requires him to immerse. The Talmud relates: The matter circulated and came before R' Abba bar Memel. He said to the rabbis before
R' Abba bar Memel continued: Apparently, in a case of partaking, the rabbis imposed a higher standard, whereas in a case of touching, the rabbis did not impose a higher standard. Similarly, in a case of an acute mourner, the rabbis require him to immerse before he may partake of sacrificial meat,
§ The Mishnah teaches with regard to an acute mourner: And he does not receive a share of sacrificial meat in order to partake of it in the evening. The Talmud comments: The Mishnah indicates only that he may not receive a share of the meat, but when other priests invite him to join in their portion