Mga Sanggunian sa Talmud para sa Genesis 31:16: Jerusalem Talmud Nazir

What is decayed matter? Flesh of the corpse which was separated⁸³This text does not make much sense. The parallel in the Babli, 50a, reads בָּשָׂר הַמֵּת שֶׁקָּרַשׁ וְהַמּוֹהַל שֶׁהִרְתִּיחַ, “Flesh of the corpse that coagulated and fluid that was heated.” A gloss in the Arukh (s. v. נצל) explains: “A stillbirth whose flesh coagulated but did not firm.” The quote from the Yerushalmi reads in the Arukh: בָּשָׂר הַמֵּת שֶׁנָּצַל וְהַמּוֹהַל שֶׁקָּרַשׁ which can also be translated as: “Flesh of the corpse which was separated and fluid that coagulated”, the difference being that נצל means “to separate” in an abstract sense, as in Gen. 31:16 where Rachel and Leah congratulate themselves that God had separated Laban’s property from him and transferred it to them, while נתק means bodily separation, “tearing apart.” The suggestion by M. Margalit and J. Sussman to read נתוך instead of נתוק has no basis. It is remarkable that Tosephta Ahilut (2:3, quoted later in our text) goes into the details of the rules of decay but except for a fleeting reference to our Mishnah (Ahilut 4:5) never mentions נֵצֶל. If the text is taken as it stands, one might define nēṣel as “fibers from the corpse and fluid that coagulated.” and fluid that coagulated. Therefore not when it⁸⁴The blood in an intermediate state between fluidity and coagulation. It is unreasonable to assume that the blood should be impure as fluid and as fully coagulated matter, but not in an intermediate state. is still mashed? Did not Rebbi Ḥanina say in the name of Rebbi: ⁸⁵The text is paralleled in the Babli, 50a, and Tosephta Ahilut 4:3. In the latter, a Babylonian scribe or compiler systematically wrote חתך for התך, היתיך (as noted by D. Pardo). Fat from a corpse⁸⁶The text is a contamination of two versions. “The fat of a corpse” may either be חֵלֶב הַמֵּת or חֶלְבּוֹ שֶׁל הַמֵּת. which was melted remains impure; if he cut it⁸⁷The fat was cut in pieces smaller than olive size. Either this was done outside a “tent” (because all body parts of a corpse under one “tent” are joined together by the “tent”; Tosephta Ahilut 4:4), or small pieces of fat from two different corpses are fused together by heating. The resulting olive-sized piece is not impure since “connection by a human is not counted” (Tosephta Ahilut 4:3). and then melted it, it is pure⁸⁸Then the question is, if the state of the material does not matter, why should the mashed state matter?. Rebbi Yudan and Rebbi Yose, one says to exclude the fluid in the flesh⁸⁹Any fluid which is not blood but oozes from a corpse is impure only if it became solid in an olive-sized piece.; the other says that if it will fill the volume of an olive when congealed, it will be impure when still mashed⁹⁰An exactly olive-sized piece of colloidal material will be pure since in solid form it will have shrunk..