Commentary for Niddah 5:29
ולשמאי האיכא ישנה
as with the inception of uncleanness if it is doubtful whether an object has or has not touched an uncleanness in a public domain it is deemed to be clean, so also with the termination of uncleanness, if it is doubtful whether an object had been duly immersed or not, in a public domain it is deemed to be clean. And the Rabbis?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' How, in view of R. Simeon's inference, could they maintain (v. supra 2b ad fin.) that 'all purifications … whether it was in a public or in a private domain, are unclean'? ');"><sup>26</sup></span>
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