Commentary for Pesachim 31:12

הכשיר מרישא דקרא שמעת ליה מכל האוכל אשר יאכל וגו' חד בתלושין וחד במחוברין

In respect to the defiling of other [objects], but they possess uncleanness in themselves.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., the Rabbis could not free them from the uncleanness which they bear by Scriptural law.');">¹⁴</span> R'Huna B'Hanina said to his son: When you come before R'Papa, point out a contradiction to him: Did then Samuel say, 'They are clean in so far that they cannot defile other [objects], but nevertheless they are unclean in themselves', - read here, and the flesh that toucheth any unclean thing shall not be eaten?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. VII, 19. Hence if the liquid is unclean, the sacrificial flesh which touches it may not be eaten.');">¹⁵</span>

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