Commentary for Meilah 15:9

טבול יום

<big><b>GEMARA: </b></big>It is stated: IT BECOMES SUSCEPTIBLE FOR UNFITNESS THROUGH CONTACT WITH A TEBUL YOM OR 'ONE WHO STILL REQUIRES ATONEMENT', OR BY REMAINING OVERNIGHT. [That is, it becomes] 'susceptible for unfitness' but not for defilement.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The term 'unfit' through contact with an unclean person or thing denotes that the uncleanness contracted is not of such a degree as to tny be transmitted to another object. 'Defiled' or 'unclean' , on the other hand, denotes the capacity of transmitting further the uncleanness contracted.');">⁶</span> With whom then will our Mishnah agree? - With the Sages, for it has been taught:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Tosef. Toh. I, 3. There is a scale of degrees of uncleanness: the 'source of sources'; the 'source' of uncleanness; the first, second, third and fourth degree of uncleanness. The degree of uncleanness of the defiled object is (in general) one degree lower than that of the object from which it derived its defilement. The susceptibility to uncleanness is not uniform. The holier a thing the more susceptible it is to uncleanness. Holy ohase things , e.g. are susceptible to 'uncleanness' in the third degree and to 'unfitness' in the fourth, and terumah to 'uncleanness' in the second degree and to 'unfitness' in the third.');">⁷</span> 'Abba Saul says. A tebul yom [

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