Commentary for Zavim 5:7
הַנּוֹגֵעַ בְּזוֹבוֹ שֶׁל זָב, וּבְרֻקּוֹ, בְּשִׁכְבַת זַרְעוֹ, בְּמֵימֵי רַגְלָיו, וּבְדַם הַנִּדָּה, מְטַמֵּא שְׁנַיִם וּפוֹסֵל אֶחָד. פֵּרַשׁ, מְטַמֵּא אֶחָד וּפוֹסֵל אֶחָד, אֶחָד הַנּוֹגֵעַ וְאֶחָד הַמַּסִּיט. רַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר אוֹמֵר, אַף הַנּוֹשֵׂא:
One who touches the discharge of a <i>zav</i>, his spittle, his semen, his urine, or the blood of a menstruant, he renders unclean at two [levels], and disqualifies [terumah] at one [level more]. If he separated himself [from the source of uncleanness], he renderds unclean at one [level] and renders unfit [terumah] at one [level more]. [The law is the same] whether one touched [it] or moved [it]. Rabbi Eliezer says, even if he carried [it].
Bartenura on Mishnah Zavim
ואחד המסיט – who moves/shakes her from her place even though he doesn’t touch or carry [her].
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English Explanation of Mishnah Zavim
If one touches the discharge of a zav, his spittle, semen or urine, or the blood of a menstruant, he conveys uncleanness at two [removes], and disqualifies [terumah] at one [more remove]; Liquids from a zav's body, including his genital discharge, his spit, his semen and his urine defile as does the zav himself. They make one who touches or moves them into a "father of impurity."
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Bartenura on Mishnah Zavim
רבי אליעזר אומר אף הנושא – and it speaks of one who carries, meaning to say, that the person who moves/shakes is not ritually impure unless he carries it, that they are above and the person doing the moving/shaking is below. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Eliezer.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Zavim
If he separated, he defiles at one [remove] and disqualifies [terumah] at one [more remove]. Once he separates from the source of impurity, he has first degree impurity.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Zavim
This is the case whether he had touched or moved it. Rabbi Eliezer said: also if he had carried it. These substances defile only through contact and shifting. They do not, according to the first opinion, defile by carrying or by being carried. Rabbi Eliezer disagrees and holds that they do defile one who carries them. This was the same dispute that Rabbi Eliezer had with the sages in mishnah three.
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