Related%20passage for Parah 11:2

כָּל הַסְּפֵק טָהוֹר לִתְרוּמָה, טָהוֹר לְחַטָּאת. כָּל הַתָּלוּי לִתְרוּמָה, נִשְׁפָּךְ לְחַטָּאת. אִם עָשׂוּ עַל גַּבָּיו טָהֳרוֹת, תְּלוּיוֹת. הָרְפָפוֹת, טְהוֹרוֹת לְקֹדֶשׁ וְלִתְרוּמָה וּלְחַטָּאת. רַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר אוֹמֵר, הָרְעָדוֹת, טְמֵאוֹת לְחַטָּאת:

Any doubtful case [regarding something's purity status] which would be [deemed] pure for <i>trumah</i> [a portion of produce which needs to be given to a priest and must be kept pure] is pure for <i>chatat</i>. Any [doubtful case] which is 'hanging' for <i>trumah</i> [i.e. not definitively deemed pure or impure, but rather is neither eaten not burned] is spilled out for <i>chatat</i>. [Impure <i>trumah</i> may not be eaten and needs to be burnt, but it is forbidden to burn pure <i>trumah</i>. A doubtful case of <i>trumah</i> is considered 'hanging' if we declare it doubtfully impure such that it may not be eaten but is still not allowed to be burnt. Invalid <i>chatat</i> waters, however, cannot be used for the ritual sprinkling, and thus retain no sanctity; therefore they may be discarded or destroyed.] If one [whom the <i>chatat</i> waters that should have been spilled out were sprinkled on him when he was impure, in order to purify him through the <i>chatat</i> ritual] handled pure [<i>trumah</i>], they are 'hanging' [and can be neither eaten nor burned. The [wooden] lattices are pure for sanctified property, for <i>trumah</i>, and for <i>chatat</i>. Rabbi Eliezer says: The shaky [lattices] are impure for <i>chatat</i>.

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