Kommentar zu Oholot 7:1
הַטֻּמְאָה בַכֹּתֶל, וּמְקוֹמָהּ טֶפַח עַל טֶפַח עַל רוּם טֶפַח, כָּל הָעֲלִיּוֹת שֶׁעַל גַּבָּהּ, אֲפִלּוּ הֵן עֶשֶׂר, טְמֵאוֹת. הָיְתָה עֲלִיָּה אַחַת עַל גַּבֵּי שְׁנֵי בָתִּים, הִיא טְמֵאָה, וְכָל הָעֲלִיּוֹת שֶׁעַל גַּבָּהּ, טְהוֹרוֹת. כֹּתֶל שָׁנִית, טֻמְאָה בוֹקַעַת וְעוֹלָה, בּוֹקַעַת וְיוֹרָדֶת. נֶפֶשׁ אֲטוּמָה, הַנּוֹגֵעַ בָּהּ מִן הַצְּדָדִין, טָהוֹר, מִפְּנֵי שֶׁטֻּמְאָה בוֹקַעַת וְעוֹלָה, בּוֹקַעַת וְיוֹרָדֶת. אִם הָיָה מְקוֹם הַטֻּמְאָה טֶפַח עַל טֶפַח עַל רוּם טֶפַח, הַנּוֹגֵעַ בָּהּ מִכָּל מָקוֹם, טָמֵא, מִפְּנֵי שֶׁהִיא כְקֶבֶר סָתוּם. סָמַךְ לָהּ סֻכּוֹת, טְמֵאוֹת. רַבִּי יְהוּדָה מְטַהֵר:
Wenn es Unreinheiten in der Wand gab und ihr Platz eine Handbreite von einer Handbreite von einer Handbreitenhöhe war, sind alle darüber liegenden oberen Stockwerke, selbst wenn sie zehn waren, unrein. Wenn es eine obere Etage über zwei Häusern gab, ist dies unrein und alle darüber liegenden oberen Etagen sind rein. Eine zweite Wand, die Verunreinigung durchbohrt und geht nach oben, durchbohrt und geht nach unten. Ein fester Grabstein, wenn man ihn von den Seiten berührt, ist er rein, weil die Verunreinigung durchbohrt und aufsteigt, durchbohrt und abfällt. Wenn der Ort der Verunreinigung eine Handbreite von einer Handbreite von einer Handbreitenhöhe war, ist einer, der sie an irgendeiner Stelle berührt, unrein, weil sie wie ein versiegeltes Grab ist. Wenn er damit Stände unterstützte, sind sie unrein, aber Rabbi Yehuda erklärt [sie] für rein.
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הטומאה. שעל גבה -that are on top of the wall.
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We have learned on several occasions that if a source of corpse impurity is found in a space that has one cubic handbreadth of open air, it is as if the impurity is trapped in a grave and it spreads upward and downward, defiling anything above it or below it. It also spreads to the sides. However, if it is trapped in a smaller space, the impurity does not spread to the sides and can only travel directly above and below.
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טמאות – for the wall serves them, and the heads of he beams of the upper room are inserted/stuck in the wall and he wall is high and it is a partition for all of the upper rooms for this one is higher than that one. And especially when the place of defilement is a handbreadth by a handbreadth, for all of the wall is considered like a sealed grave and it brings the defilement to all of the upper rooms. But the wall is not judged half by half because it doesn’t have even a chip/split to the side of the upper room.
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If there is uncleanness in a wall, in a space of one cubic handbreadth, all upper stories above it, even if there are ten of them, are unclean. If there is a space of one cubic handbreadth in a wall that serves multiple stories of a house, then the impurity found in it will rise and spread and it will defile everything found in all of the stories. However, if the space was less than a cubic handbreadth, the impurity rises and descends but only directly above or below it. It will not defile the entire contents of all of the upper stories, because the impurity will not spread to the sides.
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עליה אחת בנויה על גבי שני בתים – [that this wall forms a partition between the two houses] and he upper room is built on top of both of them (i.e., the houses).
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If there was a single upper story [built] over two houses, that one becomes unclean but all upper stories above it remain clean. In this case, the wall was built to support one large upper story that was built over two houses, which are also separated by the wall. Above that upper story are more stories. In this case, the impurity defiles the contents of the large story that is directly above the wall. However the ceiling of the first upper story blocks the impurity from continuing to defile the stories above.
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היא טמאה – the first upper room, that this wall reaches until the concrete of stone chippings covering the ceiling of the lower story and serving as a flooring for the upper story but the defilement bursts forth and ascends in it.
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[In a] beach- wall, uncleanness cleaves upwards and downward. The word that I have translated as "beach-wall" is obscure and Albeck even goes so far as to state that we don't really know what it means. Some commentators interpret it to mean "beach-wall" which is a wall of sand brought up by the sea. The impurity found in this wall cleaves upward and downward, but it doesn't spread to the sides since it is sealed into a space less than one cubic handbreadth.
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וכל העליות שעל גבה טהורות – for the concrete of stone chippings covering the ceiling of the lower story and serving as flooring for the upper story/מעזיבה that is upon it interposes.
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[With regard to] a solid tomb monument, a person who touches it from the side remains clean, since [its] uncleanness cleaves upwards and downwards. But if there was a [free] space of a cubic handbreadth in the place where the uncleanness was, a person touching it anywhere becomes unclean, because it is like a closed grave. The solid tomb monument is placed over a sealed grave. Since there is no free space in the monument, it seals up the impurity and it doesn't spread to the sides. It only spreads upwards and downwards. However, if there is a free space of a cubic handbreadth, then it is like the situation where the impurity is found in a closed grave. In such a situation the person need not be directly above the impurity to be defiled.
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כותל השונית – a wall that is built in the place that sea reaches at the time that it continually stirs up.
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If he supported sukkot on [the monument] they become unclean. Rabbi Judah declares them clean. This section refers back to the situation in the beginning of section four, where the monument was solid. According to the sages, if one uses this monument to support sukkot (booths, not necessarily for the Festival of Sukkot) then the booths are impure because they are like an ohel over the monument. Rabbi Judah says that since one who touches the monument from the side is pure, these sukkot are also pure.
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טומאה בוקעת ועולה – if there is defilement underneath it, this wall does not defile all of its surroundings, because there is no cavity of a handbreadth.
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נפש אטומה (a solid tomb-structure – to which there is no access) -a marker that they build on the grave to indicate the neighborhood of an unclean place, and that which is filled up is built upon the defilement itself but the corpse is not buried in bier in order that there will have a cavity of a handbreadth.
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כקבר סתום – that defiles all of its surroundings through contact.
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סמך לה סוכות – it refers to the solid tomb-structure/נפש אטומה referred to above, that we state that a person who comes in contact with it from the sides is ritually pure, but if he made for this marking put up to indicate the neighborhood of an unclean place Sukkot similar to a lintel, this Sukkah is impure, because it is similar to the tent of a corpse.
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ור' יהודה מטהר – since it is from the sides. Bu the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yehuda.
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