How do we learn that the flesh of a corpse is מטמא even if dry?
- Since teeth are מטמא it is a קל וחומר that flesh is מטמא.
- A verse teaches that any טומאה that separates from a מת is מטמא.
- Since hair is מטמא it follows that flesh is also מטמא.
- Just as a bone is dry and is מטמא so too dry flesh is מטמא.
- Machlokes B&D.
The skin of dead people is טמא.
- מדאורייתא.
- False, it is totally טהור.
- It is טמא מדרבנן because of a גזרה that saddles for donkeys should not be made from human skin.
- Machlokes A&C.
- It is טמא מדרבנן in the same way that fingernails are טמא מדרבנן.
If something causes טומאה to others it follows that it itself is טמא.
- This is obvious without any proof.
- This is true and is learnt from a קל וחומר.
- This is learnt from זב who causes טומאה to others so כל שכן he is טמא himself.
- Not true since the goat sent to Azazel is not טמא but is מטמא the person who sends it out.
- This is learnt from פרה אדומה which is מטמא את הטהורים ומטהר את הטמאים.
A שרץ is מטמא.
- The person who touches it (מגע) but not the person who carries it (משא).
- Both the person who touches it and the person who carries it (משא).
- The clothes worn by the person carrying it even if he did not touch it.
- Only food not people.
- Only clothes beneath a heavy stone.
A נבלה is מטמא.
- Both the person who touches it and the clothes he is wearing.
- The person who touches it but not the clothes he is wearing.
- The person who carries it but not the clothes he is wearing.
- The clothes worn by the person who carries it but not the person himself.
- Is not מטמא people only food.
No danger to life is involved if one lets a Nochri paint one's eye.
- Not true, he might put lethal poison in the eye.
- He might blind him but it will not kill because the poison can be sucked out.
- The Nochrim in the time of Chazal were not dangerous.
- Machlokes A&B.
- One should not go to him because he might invoke עבודה זרה.