Commentary for Bekhorot 75:17

נימא

Now we may readily grant this in the case of an earthen vessel, the Divine Law having revealed explicitly in that connection that uncleanness depends on the inside [receiving uncleanness]; but as regards a rinsing vessel, did the Divine Law reveal explicitly that uncleanness depends on the inside [receiving uncleanness]? - If we were referring to a case of biblical uncleanness, it would indeed be so.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That if the outside of a rinsing vessel becomes unclean, the inside too becomes unclean, whether it is capable of containing or not.');">¹¹</span>

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