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תלמוד על כלים 1:5

Jerusalem Talmud Megillah

MISHNAH: The only difference between a sufferer from flux who experienced two episodes and one who experienced three is the sacrifice233The impurity of the sufferer, a male from gonorrhea or a female from any genital emission, is the topic of Lev. 15:1–30 and Tractate Zavim. After one emission of fluid the sufferer becomes impure; he needs immersion in a miqweh and becomes pure at sundown. If he has two emissions in one day or in two successive days, he is a source of severe impurity and cannot become pure unless he was seven consecutive days without symptoms. If he has three emissions in at most three consecutive days, he cannot participate in any kind of sacred offerings unless after his purification he brings a sacrifice of two birds (Lev. 15:14,29).. The only difference between a sufferer from skin disease who is quarantined and one declared absolute is torn clothing, untended hair, shaving, and birds234In a number of cases of skin disease when the diagnosis is not clear cut, the sufferer is quarantined 7 or 14 days (Lev. 13:4,5,21,26,31. Even if after the quarantine the priest declares him not impure, he has to immerse himself and the clothing he wore during his quarantine in a miqweh, but during the quarantine he does not have to wear torn clothing and dishevelled hair like the person declared as certain sufferer (Lev. 13:45). After he is healed he still has to immerse himself and the clothing he wore during his impurity, but he does not have to undergo the purification ceremony described in Lev. 14:1–32. (Tractate Nega`im)..
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