Pesahim 14 - Contact Tracing
Rabbi Richard Hidary
Pesahim 14 Principles: Avi avot – av – rishon – sheni – shelishi – revi’i Lowest level aka pasul = not contagious but tameh Some say food does not transmit past rishon Some say liquid transmits only miderabanan Liquids touched by sheni become rishon Mishnah Rabbi Hanina deputy Kohen Gadol – burn meat sheni with rishon Rabbi Akiva – burn shelishi with rishon Application to Terumah Rabbi Meir – same Rabbi Yose – burn separately Gemara Rabbi Hanina only 1 step? Make it shelishi with rishon But food does not make food impure Abaye Rav Ada bar Ahava Ravina Rabbi Akiva only 2 steps? Rav Yehudah – metal lamp makes it 3 steps Why not clay lamp, 2 steps, even though was not contagious Mishnah specified by corpse impurity only Rabbi Akiva must think that liquid contaminates mideoraita