Commentary for Moed Katan 13:13

<big><strong>גמ׳</strong></big> תניא רבי מאיר אומר רואין את הנגעים להקל אבל לא להחמיר רבי יוסי אומר לא להקל ולא להחמיר שאם אתה נזקק לו להקל נזקק לו אף להחמיר

<big><b>MISHNAH: </b></big><span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The technical points involved in the discussion of this Mishnah bearing on the diagnosis of the symptoms of (biblical) leprosy and the treatment of the patient are the following: (a) The diagnosis may be made by any expert, priest or layman, 'save that the pronouncement of " cleanness"="" or="" "uncleanness"="" is="" assigned="" to="" the="" priest:="" if="" priest="" be="" told="" that="" man="" "clean",="" he="" pronounces="" him="" clean;="" "unclean",="" unclean'.="" neg.="" iii,="" 1.="" (b)="" on="" findings="" of="" first="" inspection="" pronounced="" patient="" either="" (i)="" as="" 'clean'="" and="" discharged,="" 'unclean',="" isolated;="" (ii)="" in="" some="" cases="" doubt,="" remanded="" for="" seven="" days'="" observational="" detention.="" cf.="" lev.="" xiii,="" 2-4ff;="" 3-4.="" (c)="" after="" a="" second="" doubtful="" cases,="" 'unclean'="" before,="" still="" doubt="" further="" remand="" ibid.="" 5-8;="" 13-17;="" 5-6.="" (d)="" third="" final="" declared="" discharged="" isolated,="" until="" recovered="" from="" his="" affection.="" during="" these="" periods="" was="" allowed="" consort="" with="" wife.="" (e)="" recovery="" went="" through="" two="" ritual="" purifications,="" preliminary,="" outside="" town="" returned="" home="" days,="" which,="" however,="" not="" wife;="" xiv,="" 2-8;="" 1-2.="" then="" purification="" which="" admitted="" sanctuary="" sacrificial="" rites.="" 9ff;="" 3="" 7ff.="" vkhj,c');"="">²⁰</span> R'MEIR SAYS: AN [INITIAL]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' seems best omitted here, as seems apparent from Raba's comment infra, and other ancient texts, e.g., Asheri and commentaries of Alfasi, although our editions of Alfasi as well as the Mishnah texts (Babylonian and Palestian) have it. V. Heller, Tosaf. Yom Tob and particularly Dr E. Baneth's full critical examination in his commentary on the Mishnah, Berlin,, 1925, Pt. II, p. 161, n. 26.');">²¹</span> INSPECTION OF LEPROUS SYMPTOMS MAY BE MADE [DURING THE FESTIVAL 'WEEK]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This (bracketed) expression is in the Mishnah text and is essential here.');">²²</span>

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