Related%20passage for Tahorot 7:2

One who leaves an <i>am ha'aretz</i> in his house awake and finds him awake, [or leaves him] asleep and finds him asleep, [or leaves him] awake and finds him asleep, [in these three cases] the house is pure. If [one leaves him] asleep and he finds him awake, the house is impure, according to Rabbi Meir. And the Sages say: things are only impure as far as to where he [the <i>am ha'aretz</i>] could extend his hand and touch.

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