בֵּית שְׂאֹר מֻקָּף צָמִיד פָּתִיל וְנָתוּן לְתוֹךְ הַתַּנּוּר, הַשְּׂאֹר וְהַשֶּׁרֶץ בְּתוֹכוֹ וְהַקֶּרֶץ בֵּינְתַיִם, הַתַּנּוּר טָמֵא וְהַשְּׂאֹר טָהוֹר. וְאִם הָיָה כַזַּיִת מִן הַמֵּת, הַתַּנּוּר וְהַבַּיִת טָמֵא, וְהַשְּׂאֹר טָהוֹר. אִם יֶשׁ שָׁם פּוֹתֵחַ טֶפַח, הַכֹּל טָמֵא:
Se una pentola da lievitazione con un coperchio ben aderente veniva messa in un forno, e c'era del lievito e uno sheretz all'interno della pentola, ma c'era una divisione di pane non commestibile tra loro, il forno è impuro ma il lievito è puro. Ma se c'era una massa d'oliva di un cadavere [nella pentola] sia il forno che la casa sono impuri, ma il lievito rimane puro. Se nella partizione [nella pentola del lievito] c'era un'apertura di un soffio, tutto diventa impuro.
Jerusalem Talmud Chagigah
There we have stated: “If he ate a fig cake with dirty hands, put his hand into his mouth to remove a pebble, …” Ḥizqiah said, one stated this only for a fig cake where he desires the fluid remaining on his finger, therefore not for anything else. Rebbi Joḥanan said, there is no difference, equally a fig cake where he desires the fluid remaining on his finger or anything other. The Mishnah disagrees with Ḥizqiah: “Touching by a person impure in the impurity of the dead who had food or drink in his mouth: if he put his head inside a pure stove he made it impure. If a pure person with food or drink in his mouth put his head inside the impure stove he became impure.” One understands drinks. From where was the food susceptible to impurity? Not from his saliva! Explain it either from a moist fig cake or as food which already outside were susceptible to impurity. The Mishnah disagrees with Rebbi Joḥanan: “One eats dry food with dirty hands with heave but not with sancta.” Explain it if he throws. If he throws then even for sancta. Maybe he will forget and touch. If maybe he will forget and touch then it should be forbidden also for heave. Eaters of heave are vigilant and he will not forget but eaters of sancta are not vigilant and he forgets.
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