Commentary for Pesachim 28:2

ומאי דוחקיה דרב יהודה לאוקמיה בנר של מתכת נוקמיה בנר של חרס

[which intimates], the sword is as the slain;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In its degree of defilement. For otherwise, why specify how the person was slain? This is then understood as a general law that any metal vessel or utensil which becomes defiled through a corpse, whether at first hand or not, bears the same degree of defilement as that which contaminates it.');">²</span> hence it is a principal defilement, and he [R'Akiba] thus holds that a third may be raised to a first.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For the oil, by contact with the lamp, is raised from a third to a first.');">³</span>

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