Commentary for Yoma 13:1
because the Torah has rendered all levitical impurity caused through a corpse inoperative in case of a community.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The source is Num. IX, 10: If any person . . shall be unclean by reason of a dead body or be in a journey afar off, he could postpone the offering up of his paschal lamb until the fourteenth of the month of Iyar. From this R. Shesheth infers that a person (an individual) is suspended');"><sup>1</sup></span> R'Shesheth said: Whence do I know that?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That the law is only suspended, not inoperative.');"><sup>2</sup></span> Because it has been taught: If the priest was standing and offering up the sheaf of the 'Omer<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. GIos.');"><sup>3</sup></span>
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