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Mishnayos Keilim Perek 18 Mishnah 8

כלים פרק י"ח משנה ח׳

8

A tefillin box consisting of four vessels: if the first compartment was unloosed, and then he mended it, it retains its corpse uncleanness. So is it also the case with the second and the third. If he unloosed the fourth it becomes free from corpse uncleanness but it is still unclean from contact with corpse uncleanness. If he went back to the first compartment and unloosed and mended it, it remains unclean from contact. So also in the case of the second compartment. If he then unloosed the third compartment and mended it becomes clean, since the fourth is unclean from contact, and what is unclean from contact cannot convey uncleanness by contact.

תְּפִלָּה, אַרְבָּעָה כֵלִים. הִתִּיר קְצִיצָה הָרִאשׁוֹנָה וְתִקְּנָהּ, טְמֵאָה טְמֵא מֵת, וְכֵן שְׁנִיָּה, וְכֵן שְׁלִישִׁית. הִתִּיר אֶת הָרְבִיעִית, טְהוֹרָה מִטְּמֵא מֵת, אֲבָל טְמֵאָה מַגַּע טְמֵא מֵת. חָזַר לָרִאשׁוֹנָה וְהִתִּירָהּ וְתִקְּנָהּ, טְמֵאָה בְמַגָּע, וְכֵן שְׁנִיָּה. הִתִּיר אֶת הַשְּׁלִישִׁית, טְהוֹרָה, שֶׁהָרְבִיעִית בְּמַגָּע, וְאֵין מַגָּע עוֹשֶׂה מַגָּע:

ח׳
Bartenura

תפלה – it is speaking of the Tefillin of the head that came in contact with a corpse, for it has four compartments, and every compartment is called a קציצה/capsule, compartment.

התיר קציצה (he untied/loosened the compartment) – he removed one compartment and brought another in its place.

טמאה טמא מת – that their connection/attachment makes them one body.

וכן שניה וכן שלישית – all the time that the fourth [compartment] exists. On account that it is attached to the fourth [compartment]. But when he removed also the fourth and exchanged it for another, the defilement from [contact with] the dead flies out from it, and there remains in the three compartments/capsules [of the Tefillin of the head] the defilement from contact with something which had been defiled through contact with a corpse, for it came in contact with the fourth [capsule/compartment] when they attached them and it still exists. But the Fourth [capsule/compartment], when it was switched out, there is no defilement in its body at all, for if it was because it come in contact with the three [other] compartments, contact [uncleanness] does not cause contact uncleanness, since the first three [compartments] are new, that came in contact with someone who had been in contact with a corpse, the new forth [compartment] does not receive defilement from them, and there is no defilement in the new fourth [compartment] other than on account that is attached to the three which are defiled through contact. Therefore, when he return and switched out the three [compartments] a second time, all of them are pure, and there is no contact [with defilement] in them.

תפלה. בתפילין של ראש שנגעו במת איירי, שיש בהן ארבעה בתים, וכל בית נקראת קציצה:

התיר קציצה. דעביר בית אחד והביא אחר תחתיו:

טמאה טמא מת. דחיבורן משוי להו גוף אחד:

וכן שניה וכן שלישית. כל זמן שהרביעית קיימת. מחמת שמחוברת לרביעית. אבל כשהעביר גם הרביעית והחליפה באחרת, פרחה מינייהו טומאת מת, ונשתייר בשלש קציצות טומאת מגע טמא מת, שהרי נגעו ברביעית כשחיברן והיא עדיין קיימת. אבל רביעית כשהוחלפה, אין בגופה טומאה כלל, דאי משום דנגעה בשלש, אין מגע עושה מגע, שהשלש ראשונות חדשות נינהו שנגעו בטמא מת, ואין הרביעית החדשה מקבלת מהן טומאה, ואין טומאה ברביעית החדשה אלא מחמת שמחוברת לשלש הטמאות מגע. הלכך כשחזר והחליף השלש פעם שניה, טהרו כולן ואפילו מגע לית בהו: