Commentary for Sotah 59:11
מטמא שנים ופוסל אחד בקודש
Conclude, then, that he holds that [normally] what is unclean in the second degree does not create a third degree with the non-holy. R. Eleazar — for it has been taught: R. Eleazar says: The following three are alike: the first degree of defilement in the case of the sacrificial food, the non-holy and the heave-offering; it creates two further degrees of defilement and one of disqualification with the sacrificial food;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' There is thus a fourth degree of defilement. ');"><sup>11</sup></span>
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