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The table below presents an aligned extract of verses
in
Lv11-39, Lv11-40
Both verses
discuss
the affect of ritual impurity arising
from contact with certain dead animals
The alignment justifies the Rashi assertions that
Touching certain dead animals makes only you ritually impure.
Carrying the dead animals makes both you and your clothing ritually impure.
Verse
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Text of Verse
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Rashi comment
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Lv11-39
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- And if any beast, of which you may eat, dies;
- he who touches its carcass
- shall be unclean until the evening.
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Touching a dead animal only renders the person ritually impure.
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Lv11-40
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- ...he also who carries the carcass
- shall wash his clothes, and
- be unclean until the evening.
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The alignment justifies the contrast that
- touching a dead animal only renders the person ritually impure
- carrying a dead animal renders both the person and their clothes
ritually impure.
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Advanced Rashi: Rashi makes additional comments. Besides discussing
what is ritually impure Rashi discusses the method of removing the status of ritual
impurity. A simple prerequisite to removing ritual impurity is immersion in a ritual
body of water. This immersion is alluded to in the verse by the phrase wash his
clothes. The immersion suffices for removal of ritual impurity from clothing.
For removal of ritual impurity from the person himself, besides immersion, there is
a time requirement of waiting till evening. That is, even after immersion, the person
remains ritually impure until evening. This waiting requirement is indicated
in the text of the verse with the word ...and be unclean until the evening.
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