Commentary for Pesachim 157:20

כל היכא דלא קרינן ביה והבשר אשר יגע בכל טמא לא יאכל לא קרינן ביה והבשר כל טהור יאכל בשר כל היכא דקרינן ביה והבשר אשר יגע בכל טמא לא יאכל קרינן ביה והבשר כל טהור יאכל בשר

But if th knife became unclean with the uncleanness conferred by a reptile, so that it defiles the flesh alone, but does not defile the person, [only] those who are clean sacrifice, but the unclean do not sacrifice, [for] it is bette eaten when the flesh is unclean, which is subject to a negative injunction, rather than that the flesh should be eaten when the person is unclean, which is subject to kareth.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Mishnah supra ');">²³</span> This proves that R'Hisda holds: uncleanness is overridden in the case of a community.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' But not permitted; v. supra 77a, p. 398, n. 2. Consequently we seek as far as possible to bring the sacrifice in cleanness or at least with the smallest possible degree of uncleanness.');">²⁴</span>

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