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Mishnah for Oholot 3:7

טֶפַח עַל טֶפַח עַל רוּם טֶפַח, מְרֻבָּע, מֵבִיא אֶת הַטֻּמְאָה, וְחוֹצֵץ בִּפְנֵי הַטֻּמְאָה. כֵּיצַד. בִּיב שֶׁהוּא קָמוּר תַּחַת הַבַּיִת, יֶשׁ בּוֹ פוֹתֵחַ טֶפַח וְיֵשׁ בִּיצִיאָתוֹ פּוֹתֵחַ טֶפַח, טֻמְאָה בְתוֹכוֹ, הַבַּיִת טָהוֹר. טֻמְאָה בַבַּיִת, מַה שֶּׁבְּתוֹכוֹ טָהוֹר, שֶׁדֶּרֶךְ הַטֻּמְאָה לָצֵאת וְאֵין דַּרְכָּהּ לְהִכָּנֵס. יֶשׁ בּוֹ פוֹתֵחַ טֶפַח וְאֵין בִּיצִיאָתוֹ פוֹתֵחַ טֶפַח, הַטֻּמְאָה בְתוֹכוֹ, הַבַּיִת טָמֵא. טֻמְאָה בַבַּיִת, מַה שֶּׁבְּתוֹכוֹ טָהוֹר, שֶׁדֶּרֶךְ הַטֻּמְאָה לָצֵאת וְאֵין דַּרְכָּהּ לְהִכָּנֵס. אֵין בּוֹ פוֹתֵחַ טֶפַח וְאֵין בִּיצִיאָתוֹ פוֹתֵחַ טֶפַח, טֻמְאָה בְתוֹכוֹ, הַבַּיִת טָמֵא. טֻמְאָה בַבַּיִת, מַה שֶּׁבְּתוֹכוֹ טָמֵא. אֶחָד חוֹר שֶׁחֲרָרוּהוּ מַיִם אוֹ שְׁרָצִים, אוֹ שֶׁאֲכָלַתּוּ מַלַּחַת, וְכֵן מִרְבָּךְ שֶׁל אֲבָנִים, וְכֵן סְוָאר שֶׁל קוֹרוֹת. רַבִּי יְהוּדָה אוֹמֵר, כָּל אֹהֶל שֶׁאֵינוֹ עָשׂוּי בִּידֵי אָדָם, אֵינוֹ אֹהֶל. וּמוֹדֶה בִשְׁקִיפִים וּבִסְלָעִים:

[Something that is] one handbreadth by one handbreadth and one handbreadth high [and] square conveys impurity and blocks impurity. How so? A drain that is covered beneath a house, if it has in it a handbreadth's space and it has in its outlet a handbreadth's space: If there is impurity inside it, the house remains pure; If there is impurity in the house, that which is inside it [the drain] is pure, for the manner of impurity is to go out and its manner is not to go in. If it has in it a handbreadth's space and it does not have in its outlet a handbreadth's space: if there is impurity inside it, the house is impure; if there is impurity in the house, that which is within it is pure, for the manner of impurity is to go out and its manner is not to go in. If it does not have in it a handbreadth's space and it does not have in its outlet a handbreadth's space: if there is impurity inside it, the house is impure; if there is impurity in the house, that which is within it is impure. [These rules apply to] both a hole carved out by water or by creepy crawly things, or if it had been eaten out by salt. And similarly a row of stones or a pile of beams. Rabbi Judah says: any "tent" not made by a person is not considered a "tent." But he agrees that clefts and crags [are considered as ‘tents’].

Mishnah Kelim

And sometimes they stated a large measure:A ladleful of corpse mould refers to the big ladle of physicians; The split bean in the case of skin disease refers to the Cilician kind; One who eats on Yom Kippur a quantity of the bulk of a large date, refers to the size of the date and its pit; In the case of skins of wine and oil [the holes] must be as big as their large stopper; In the case of a light hole that was not made by man's hands the prescribed size of which is that of a large fist, the reference is to the fist of Ben Batiah Rabbi Yose said: and it is as big as a large human head. And in the case of one made by human hands the prescribed size is that of the large drill in the Temple chamber which is the size of the Italian pondium or the Neronian sela or like the hole in a yoke.
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