Commentary for Pesachim 28:9
אלא ש"מ דאורייתא היא:
Even if [it was defiled] by a first or second degree it is stil a first.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit. 'beginning' - another designation for a first degree.');"><sup>9</sup></span> For we learned: Whatever renders terumah unfit defiles liquids, making them a first, except a tebul yom?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' 'What renders terumah unfit' is anything which is unclean in the second degree. By Rabbinical law this in turn defiles liquids and actually inflicts a higher degree of uncleanness than that borne by itself, rendering them unclean in the first degree. Thus if R. Akiba were treating of Rabbinically enhanced contamination, it would be unnecessary to speak of the lamp, which bears a principal degree of uncleanness, but of anything which bears even a second degree of uncleanness.');"><sup>10</sup></span>
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