Commentary for Chullin 234:20

(ויקרא יא, לט) בנבלתה ולא בעור שאין עליו כזית בשר

[can be included to make up the quantity required] for a lighter uncleanness,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That condition of uncleanness which can only render unclean foodstuffs and liquids, provided there was an egg's bulk of the unclean matter.');">¹⁷</span> but protections cannot [be included to make up the quantity required] for a graver uncleanness.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Nebelah-uncleanness. The condition of uncleanness that can even render unclean men and vessels, provided there was an olive's bulk of the unclean matter.');">¹⁸</span> Whence do we know that protections can be included for a lighter uncleanness? - From the following teaching of a Tanna of the school of R'Ishmael: It is written: Upon any sowing seed which is to be sown,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XI, 37, with reference to the uncleanness of foodstuffs.');">¹⁹</span> that is to say, in the manner in which men take out the seeds for sowing: wheat in its husk, barley in its husk, lentils in their husks.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., by seed is meant the grain together with its husk; hence the protection of food is considered as part of the food itself.');">²⁰</span> And whence do we know that protections cannot be included for a graver uncleanness? - From the following which our Rabbis taught: [He that toucheth] the carcass thereof [shall be unclean],<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. 39.');">²¹</span> but not he that touches the hide which has not an olive's bulk of flesh attached to it.

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