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Mishnayos Parah Perek 8 Mishnah 3

פרה פרק ח׳ משנה ג׳

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The one who burns the red cow or bulls and he that leads away the scapegoat, defile garments. The red cow and the bulls and the scapegoat do not themselves defile garments. Behold [the garment] would say [to the person], "That which defiled you did not defile me, but you did defile me.

הַשּׂוֹרֵף פָּרָה, וּפָרִים, וְהַמְשַׁלֵּחַ אֶת הַשָּׂעִיר, מְטַמֵּא בְגָדִים. פָּרָה וּפָרִים וְשָׂעִיר הַמִּשְׁתַּלֵּחַ עַצְמָן אֵין מְטַמְּאִין בְּגָדִים. הֲרֵי זֶה אוֹמֵר, מְטַמְּאֶיךָ לֹא טִמְּאוּנִי וְאַתָּה טִמֵּאתָנִי:

ג׳
Bartenura

השורף פרה – the Red [Heifer].

ופרים – that are burned, such as a the bullock of Yom Kippur and the bull of the anointed priest [brought as a sin-offering by an anointed High Priest who unwittingly made an erroneous Halakhic decision] (see Tractate Horayot, Chapter 2, Mishnah 1) a bull for an unwitting communal sin [of an active transgression committed by the Jewish people, as a result of an erroneous halakhic decision handed down by the Great Sanhedrin] (see Tractate Horayot, Chapter 1, Mishnah 5), they defile clothing, for in all of them it is written [in regard to the Red Heifer] (Numbers 19:8): “[He who performed the burning] shall wash his garments [in water],” (see also Tractate Parah, Chapter 4, Mishnah 4 – that all who deal with the Red Heifer from the beginning to the end defile clothing and regarding the sacrifices of Yom Kippur, see Leviticus 16:28 and 16:26), but there is no difference regarding clothing that he touches, and the same law applies to all of the rest of the vessels. That we do not exclude anything other than a person and earthenware vessels alone, that do not defile if they come in contact with them.

ופרה ופרים עצמן ושעיר המשתלח – if they came in contact with clothing, they are ritually pure. And this is what the clothing said to the man: “Things that made you unclean could not have made me unclean, but you made me unclean.”

השורף פרה אדומה:

ופרים הנשרפים, כגון פר יום הכפורים ופר כהן משיח ופר העלם דבר של ציבור, מטמאים בגדים, דבכולהו כתיב יכבס בגדיו, ולא שנא בגדים שהוא לבוש ולא שנא בגדים שהוא נוגע, וה״ה לכל שאר כלים. דלא ממעטינן אלא אדם וכלי חרס בלבד הוא שאין מטמאין אם נוגעים בהן:

ופרה ופרים עצמן ושעיר המשתלח עצמן. אם נגעו בבגדים הרי הן טהורים. והיינו דאמרי ליה בגדים לאדם, מטמאיך לא טמאוני ואתה טמאתני: