Talmud for Zavim 3:2

מְגִיפִין אוֹ פוֹתְחִין. וַחֲכָמִים אוֹמְרִים, עַד שֶׁיְּהֵא זֶה מֵגִיף וְזֶה פוֹתֵחַ. מַעֲלִין זֶה אֶת זֶה מִן הַבּוֹר. רַבִּי יְהוּדָה אוֹמֵר, עַד שֶׁיְּהֵא הַטָּהוֹר מַעֲלֶה אֶת הַטָּמֵא. מַפְשִׁילִין בַּחֲבָלִין. וַחֲכָמִים אוֹמְרִים, עַד שֶׁיִּהְיֶה זֶה מוֹשֵׁךְ הֵילֵךְ וְזֶה מוֹשֵׁךְ הֵילֵךְ. אוֹרְגִים, בֵּין בְּעוֹמְדִין בֵּין בְּיוֹשְׁבִין אוֹ טוֹחֲנִין. רַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן מְטַהֵר בְּכֻלָּן, חוּץ מִן הַטּוֹחֲנִין בְּרֵחַיִם שֶׁל יָד. פּוֹרְקִין מִן הַחֲמוֹר אוֹ טוֹעֲנִין, בִּזְמַן שֶׁמַּשָּׂאָם כָּבֵד, טְמֵאִין. בִּזְמַן שֶׁמַּשָׂאָם קַל, טְהוֹרִין. וְכֻלָּן טְהוֹרִין לִבְנֵי הַכְּנֶסֶת וּטְמֵאִין לַתְּרוּמָה:

[If a zav and a clean person] close or open [a door together, the clean person and his clothes are unclean], [but] the Sages say, [he does not become unclean unless] one is closing [the door] and one is opening [the door]. If one was raising the other from a pit [the clean person and his clothes are unclean]. Rabbi Yehuda says, only if the clean one is the one raising the unclean one. [If they were] twisting ropes together [the clean person and his clothes are unclean], [but] the Sages say, only when one is pulling in one direction and the other is pulling in the opposite direction. [If they were] weaving [together], whether standing or sitting, or they are grinding [wheat, the clean person and his clothes are unclean]. Rabbi Shimon [says that in all the cases] the clean man remains clean, unless they were grinding with a hand mill. [If they were] unloading a donkey or loading it, if the load is heavy, they are unclean, if the load is light, they are clean. In both cases [whether the load is light or heavy] they are clean to join members of the synagogue [who eat chullin in purity] but are [considered] unclean [if he is a kohen] to eat terumah [a portion of a crop given to a kohen which becomes holy upon separation, and can only be consumed by the kohen or his household].

Jerusalem Talmud Sanhedrin

You said, the order of strangling is the following: “One person draws in his direction, the other one draws in his direction.” Cahana asked before Rav: There⁵¹Mishnah Zavim 3:2. The sufferer from gonorrhea causes impurity to everything he sits on and everything which is moved either by his force or on which he sits (Lev. 15:10). For example, a sufferer from gonorrhea and a pure person sit in the same boat but do not touch at all. The moment the boat moves, the pure person and his garments become impure. This impurity is known as מִדְרָס “[caused by] stepping upon.” The Mishnah refers to two persons, one suffering from gonorrhea and one pure, who together are splicing the same rope, working at different ends. Since each of them moves the rope in his direction, the pure person and his garments become impure the moment the impure person moves the rope while the pure one is holding it., you say, “one draws in one direction, the other draws in one direction.” But here, you say, “one draws in his direction, the other draws in his direction.⁵²Why the change in language?” He told him, there one is in front, the other in the back. But here, one is on one side, the other one is on the other side.

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