Comentário sobre Ohalot 3:6

כזית מן המת פתחו בטפח – the corpse that is in the house and it has many openings, all the vessels that are placed in the cavity of the openings underneath the lintel/cross-piece of the opening from the outside, even though the openings are locked, and there is an interruption between the tent of the corpse and the tent of the vessels, all of them are impure. For the Sages decreed that defilement on a place which is the exit path of defilement that ultimately is of a corpse to exit there, and when we don’t know which path he will remove it, all of them are impure. But if there is an olive’s bulk from a corpse in the house and he intended to remove it through the window that has an opening of a handbreadth, he protects all of the locked openings since he knows the place that ultimately the defilement will leave in that path, but if it is entire corpse and he intended to remove it through the window that has four [handbreadths], he protects all of the locked openings for with the measure of four handbreadths, the Sages estimated that it is appropriate for the removal of the corpse.

Introduction When we get to 7:3 we will learn that if there is a dead body in a house, all of the openings are impure, even though the dead body will only go out through one of them. [Note that the opening is considered separate from the house]. Our mishnah teaches that if a person decides to take the dead body, or a piece thereof, out through one of the openings, the other openings, as long as they are locked, are pure. However, the opening must be large enough so that the corpse or piece thereof could go out of it. If it is not, then all of the openings remain impure.

אבל להוציא את הטומאה בפותח טפח – even a complete corpse, its defilement departs through the window all the time that it is open, and defiles the vessels that are in the house that are at its side if there is a window that is open a handbreadth.

For an olive-sized portion of a corpse, an opening [in the room in which it is found] of one handbreadth [square], and for a [whole] corpse, an opening of four handbreadths [square, is enough] to prevent the uncleanness from [spreading to the other] openings; If one intends to take an olive size portion of a corpse out of the house through an opening that is one handbreadths square, that opening is unclean, even if it is locked. Anything found in the opening, under the lintel, is unclean. But all of the other locked openings remain pure. However, if the opening is not even the size of a handbreadth, then all of the openings, even though they are locked, are impure, because in the end, the piece of corpse may be taken out through one of them. When it comes to a full corpse, the opening must be four handbreadths square to protect the other openings. If it is less, then the other openings are impure because the body might go out through one of them.

גדול מכזית כמת – specifically like a pressed-in olive’s bulk, its opening is with a handbreadth. But more than an olive’s bulk, its law as is it was a complete corpse, and it doesn’t protect over the locked openings until there would be four [handbreadths].

But for allowing the uncleanness to go out, an opening of one handbreadth [square is enough]. If the opening is not locked, then the impurity escapes as long as the opening is a one handbreadth square. This is true even if a complete corpse is in the house.

[A portion] greater than the size of an olive is as a [whole] corpse. Section one dealt with an olive-sized portion of corpse and a full corpse. But what about something in between? The answer is that anything greater than an olive-sized piece is treated as a full corpse. This means that the opening must be four square handbreadths in order to protect the other openings from being unclean.

רבי יוסי אומר השדרה והגולגולת - that in his Bet Din/court, it is like a complete corpse, and if he intended to remove them through a window, it does not protect the locked openings until there would be four [handbreadths]. And such is the Halakha.

Rabbi Yose says: [only] the spine and the skull are as a [whole] corpse. Rabbi Yose says that the spine and the skull, even if only the size of an olive remains, are treated like a full corpse. This means that the opening must be four handbreadths to protect the other openings from being impure.