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its owners will have no choice but to consult a Sage about it to determine whether or not it is ritually pure, as even with regard to a vessel that is placed upon the ground, which is certainly not capable of providing an answer if asked, its legal status is like that of an item that has knowledge
It was taught that if an impure needle were found in an animal, the meat is ritually impure. The Talmud asks: With what liquid was this meat rendered susceptible to impurity? A food can become impure only if it were rendered susceptible to impurity through contact with a liquid; how, then, could th
If we say that it was rendered susceptible to impurity by the blood that flowed when it was slaughtered, didn’t R' Ḥiyya bar Abba say that R' Yoḥanan said: From where is it derived with regard to blood of consecrated offerings that it does not render produce susceptible to impurity? As it is stated:
Rather, say that this meat was rendered susceptible to ritual impurity by the other liquids of the slaughterhouse, e.g., the water that was kept near the altar for washing the offerings. But didn’t R' Yosei, son of R' Ḥanina, say with regard to the liquids of the slaughterhouse: Not only are they
Rather, say that the meat is rendered susceptible to ritual impurity by the esteem for sacred objects. According to this principle, certain items that cannot become impure by Torah law become susceptible to impurity by rabbinic law due to their extreme sanctity. The Talmud rejects that possibility: