Commentary for Yoma 61:1

חוצץ או אינו חוצץ אמר ליה כל דתקון רבנן כעין דאורייתא תקון

render this immersion<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' An immersion, to be valid, requires utterly undisturbed touch of the water on the body of the person immersing himself, any intervening object rendering the immersion invalid. This, however, in the questioner's mind applies only to such immersion as is commanded by the Torah. R. Judah, who considers it only an immersion for the sake of uniformity, might hence hold that in this case an intervening object might not be considered sufficiently disturbing to render the immersion invalid.');">¹</span> invalid or not? - He replied: 'Whatever the Rabbis ordained, they endowed with the authority of a law of the Torah'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Pes. 30b.');">²</span> Said Abaye to R'Joseph: Is a partial entrance of the Sanctuary considered an entrance or not? - He answered: The thumb<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XIV, 14: And the priest shall take the blood of the guilt-offering and... shall put it upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot. Ibid. 17: And of the rest of the oil . . the priest shall put . . upon the thumb of his right hand and upon the great toe of his right foot. It is to receive of the blood and the oil that the leper stands at the Nicanor Gate and puts his hands and feet inside, v. 11 indicating that: And the priest that cleanseth him shall set the man that is to be cleansed . . at the door of the tent of meeting.');">³</span>

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