Quoting%20commentary for Oholot 1:5

אָדָם וּבְגָדִים מִטַּמְּאִים בְּזָב. חֹמֶר בָּאָדָם מִבַּבְּגָדִים, וּבַבְּגָדִים מִבָּאָדָם. שֶׁהָאָדָם הַנּוֹגֵעַ בְּזָב מְטַמֵּא בְגָדִים, וְאֵין בְּגָדִים הַנּוֹגְעִין בְּזָב מְטַמְּאִין בְּגָדִים. חֹמֶר בַּבְּגָדִים, שֶׁהַבְּגָדִים הַנּוֹשְׂאִין אֶת הַזָּב מְטַמְּאִין אָדָם, וְאֵין אָדָם הַנּוֹשֵׂא אֶת הַזָּב מְטַמֵּא אָדָם:

A person and items of clothing become impure by a <i>Zav</i> [a male who has certain types of atypical genital discharges, which render him impure]. [There is a way in which] a person is more stringent than garments, and [in which] garments are more [stringent] than a person, in that a person who touches a <i>Zav</i> [will in turn] make garments impure, but clothes that touch a <i>Zav</i> do not make other clothes impure. Clothes are more stringent, in that the clothes that carry a <i>Zav</i> make a person impure, but a person who carries a <i>Zav</i> does not make another person impure.

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