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רַבִּי חֲנִינָא סְגַן הַכֹּהֲנִים הֵעִיד אַרְבָּעָה דְבָרִים. מִימֵיהֶם שֶׁל כֹּהֲנִים לֹא נִמְנְעוּ מִלִּשְׂרֹף אֶת הַבָּשָׂר שֶׁנִּטְמָא בִּוְלַד הַטֻּמְאָה עִם הַבָּשָׂר שֶׁנִּטְמָא בְּאַב הַטֻּמְאָה, אַף עַל פִּי שֶׁמּוֹסִיפִין טֻמְאָה עַל טֻמְאָתוֹ. הוֹסִיף רַבִּי עֲקִיבָא, מִימֵיהֶם שֶׁל כֹּהֲנִים לֹא נִמְנְעוּ מִלְּהַדְלִיק אֶת הַשֶּׁמֶן שֶׁנִּפְסַל בִּטְבוּל יוֹם בְּנֵר שֶׁנִּטְמָא בִטְמֵא מֵת, אַף עַל פִּי שֶׁמּוֹסִיפִין טֻמְאָה עַל טֻמְאָתוֹ:

R. Chanina, the adjutant high-priest, testified as to four things: In all the days of the Cohanim they did not refrain from burning flesh that had become tamei through the "offspring" (velad) of tumah together with flesh that had become tamei through an av hatumah (proto["father"]-tumah,) even though they thereby added tumah to its tumah. [("offspring":) velad of velad is meant, i.e., flesh of third-degree tumah, having become tamei through a velad of a velad, having touched second-degree tumah and become third-degree tumah. They did not refrain from burning it together with flesh that had become tamei through an av hatumah (and had thus become first-degree tumah). And when this flesh, which in the beginning had been third-degree tumah, touches the flesh which had touched the av hatumah, it becomes second-degree tumah, having touched first-degree tumah. It is found, then, that tumah has been added to its tumah, it first having been third-degree, and now being second-degree — in spite of which they did not refrain from burning it together with a higher degree of tumah. For since this lesser degree is also to be burnt they were not concerned if it thereby became a higher degree of tumah. And even though, according to the Torah, food does not render other foods tamei¸ it being written in this regard: "It is tamei" — it is tamei, but it does not render tamei food like it — still, the Rabbis decreed that food does render other food unclean.]

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