Commentary for Pesachim 161:15

אמר רבה ק"ו ומה במקום שלא הותרה לו טומאה ידועה הותרה לו טומאת התהום מקום שהותרה לו טומאה ידועה

[Hence] let us solve from this that it refers to the priest, and [thus] the 'uncleanness of the deep' is permitted to him? - I will t you: After all it refers to the owners and [treats] of the Passover-offering, but he [R'Jose] holds: One may no slaughter [the Passover-offering] and sprinkle [its blood] on behalf of those who are unclean through a reptile, and thus it is necessary to exclude it.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The steps of the argument are stated supra 80b.');">¹⁹</span> But according to R'Jose, how is a complete zabah possible?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since he holds that part of the day is counted as a whole day, and she is unclean only from when she discharges, each day is distinct and she can never be unclean for the three consecutive days which are necessary before she becomes a complete zabah.');">²⁰</span> - When she has a continuous discharge.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For the whole three days.');">²¹</span> Alternatively, e.g. , if she sees [a discharge] the whole of two [successive] twilights.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Twilight counts as the end of one day and the beginning of the following. Hence if she discharges right through the twilights of Sunday and Monday, she is regarded as having 'seen' on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, and as this includes the beginnings of Monday and Tuesday, she is unclean the whole of these days.');">²²</span> R'Joseph asked: The priest who officiates at<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'propitiates with'.');">²³</span> the continual-offering,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' During the whole year.');">²⁴</span> is the 'uncleanness of the deep' permitted to him or not? If you should say that the 'uncleanness of the deep' is permitted to the priest who officiates at their sacrifices,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra 80b.');">²⁵</span> what about the gonorrhoea which has no connection with the preceding, and when a man has a single discharge he is unclean only until the evening, when he performs tebillah and becomes clean. Why then does he need another day? priest who officiates at the continual-offering? Do we say, when have we a tradition about 'the uncleanness of the deep', in respect of the Passover-offering, [but] we have no tradition about the 'uncleanness of the deep' in respect to the continual-offering; or perhaps the continual-offering is learned from the Passover-offering? - Said Rabbah: It stands to reason: if where known uncleanness was not permitted to him,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' E.g., a nazirite and one who sacrifices his Passover-offering. The headplate does not propitiate to make the sprinkling permissible.');">²⁶</span> yet the 'uncleanness of the deep' was permitted to him,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In the case of the continual-offering, where none are clean.');">²⁷</span> then where known uncleanness was permitted to him,

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