1)

What is the significance of the fact that the Eifer ha'Parah is Metaher?

1.

Rashi (citing R. Moshe ha'Darshan): This is like Yisrael who became Tahor via the ashes of the Parah Adumah (Sh'mos 32:20). 1


1

The Pasuk does not say that that was Metaher, but Rashi there says that he intended to test them like Sotos. I.e. those who lived were innocent. (PF)

2)

What is "ve'Chol asher Yiga bo Yitma" coming to teach us?

1.

Rashi: It teaches us that if Reuven touches Shimon who touched a Meis


1

Rashi: Because the Meis itself is Avi Avos ha'Tum'ah. Rashi also adds - in Chulin, 121a - that it is only Adam and Keilim that become an Av ha'Tum'ah through touching a Meis, but not food and drink, which are not subject to Taharah through Tevilah.

2

Rashi (in Chulin, 121a): Because if he was a Rishon le'Tum'ah, he would only be Metamei food and drink, but not Adam and Keilim. Refer also to 19:22:151:1.

3)

Why is the Parah Metamei all those who deal with it?

1.

Rashi (citing R. Moshe ha'Darshan): This is like the Golden Calf, which rendered Tamei all those who had contact with it. 1

2.

Hadar Zekenim (17): Because it is done outside the Machaneh (where anyone may go), if it were not Metamei, everyone would take from the ashes.

3.

Hadar Zekenim (17, citing R. Shmuel): It comes to atone for the golden calf. It is Metaher the Tamei, just like fire purifies gold with impurities. It is Metamei the Tahor, just like fire makes foam gold without impurities.


1

See Sifsei Chachamim.

4)

What is "ve'ha'Nefesh ha'Noga'as Titma ad ha'Erev"referring to?

1.

Rashi (in Chulin, 121a): It is referring to someone who touches the person who touched the Meis, and who now becomes a Rishon to be Tamei until nightfall. 1


1

Rashi (Ibid.): Because the person (or Keilim other than K'lei Cheres) who touched the Meis became an Av ha'Tum'ah , which renders Tamei Adam and Keilim, as well as Ochel and Mashkeh

QUESTIONS ON RASHI

5)

Rashi writes that "ve'Chol asher Yiga

1.

Riva: He means that if P'loni touches someone who is now touching a Meis, also P'loni is Tum'as Shiv'ah (S'tam Tum'as Meis). The Seifa teaches us that if P'loni touches someone who touched a Meis and separated, P'loni is Tamei Tum'as Erev.

2.

Rosh: Anything that a Tamei (Av ha'Tum'ah) touches, it becomes Tamei. Above, it says one who touches a Meis becomes Tamei Tum'as Shiv'ah. A Nefesh 1 who touched such a person after he separated, is Tamei Tum'as Erev.


1

But if a K'li touches such a person after he separated, it becomes Tum'ah Shiv'ah (Ohalos 1:3

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