Commentary for Pesachim 27:16

מאי קמ"ל שלישי מותר לעשותו שני היינו הך אמר רב יהודה הכא בנר של מתכת עסקינן דרחמנא אמר

R'AKIBA ADDED AND SAID: DURING [ALL] THE DAYS OF THE PRIESTS THEY DID NOT REFRAIN FROM LIGHTING, etc. Consider: When oil is rendered unfit through [contact with] a tebul yom, what is it? A third degree [of defilement]; and when it is lit in a lamp which was defiled by that which [or, one who] was defiled through a corpse, what does it become? A second degree.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The lamp being unclean in the first degree.');">¹⁸</span> [Thus] what he does inform us is that a third degree may be raised to a second; then it is the identical [teaching]?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' of R. Hanina.');">¹⁹</span> Said Rab Judah: We treat here of a metal lamp, for the Divine Law said,

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