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״על כל״ — לאפוקי רחוקים, ״מת״ — לאפוקי קרובים, ״נפשות״ — לאפוקי רביעית דם שיצא משני מתים, שמטמא באהל, שנאמר: ״על כל נפשות מת לא יבא״.
“In to any” serves to exclude contracting impurity to bury distant people, for whom a High Priest may not become impure; “dead” comes to exclude relatives; “bodies” comes to exclude 1/4th-log of blood that emerges from two corpses, for it renders people and objects impure in a tent, as it is stated: “Neither should he go in to any dead bodies” (Leviticus 21:11). The plural “bodies” teaches that the blood of two people combines to form the minimum quantity for ritual impurity.
מתני׳ על אלו טומאות הנזיר מגלח: על המת, ועל כזית מן המת, ועל כזית נצל, ועל מלא תרווד רקב. על השדרה, ועל הגולגולת, ועל אבר מן המת, ועל אבר מן החי שיש עליו בשר כראוי, ועל חצי קב עצמות, ועל חצי לוג דם.
Mishnah: A nazirite shaves for having become impure from these following sources of ritual impurity: For having become impure with impurity imparted by a corpse; and for impurity imparted by an olive-bulk of a corpse; and for impurity imparted by an olive-bulk of fluid [netzel] from a corpse; and for impurity imparted by a full ladle [tarvad] of dust from a corpse; and for impurity imparted by the spine; and for impurity imparted by the skull; and for impurity imparted by a limb from a corpse or for impurity imparted by a limb severed from a living person, upon either of which there is a fitting quantity of flesh; and for impurity imparted by a half-kav of bones from a corpse; and for impurity imparted by a half-log of blood.
ועל מגען ועל משאן ועל אהילן. ועל עצם כשעורה על מגעו ועל משאו.
And a nazirite shaves in each of these cases for becoming impure by coming into contact with them; and for becoming impure by carrying them; and for becoming impure by their tent, i.e., if he was positioned like a tent over them, or if he entered a tent that contains them, or if they served as a tent over him. And as for a bone that is a barley-grain-bulk, he shaves for becoming impure by coming into contact with it and by carrying it. However, he is not rendered impure with the impurity imparted in a tent, i.e., by being under the same roof as the bone.