Halakhah for Sotah 31:2
איסי בן מנחם אומר אינו צריך ומה בטומאה קלה לא חלק הכתוב בטומאת אשת איש חמורה לא כ"ש א"כ מה ת"ל בקרקע המשכן שלא יביא מתוך קופתו
if in the case of a minor defile ment<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., entrance into the Temple-precincts while ritually unclean. This is not an offence punished by a Court with death. ');"><sup>2</sup></span>
Sefer HaChinukh
From its laws is that which they, may their memory be blessed, said (Sotah 16a), "How is the shaving? He passes the razor over his visible flesh - and even [on] the underarm and the pubic area and all the rest of the body - until he becomes [smooth] like a gourd, as it is stated (Leviticus 14:9), 'all of his hair.'" And when he shaves the two shavings, he only shaves with a razor. But if he shaved not with a razor - or he left two hairs - [it is as if] he has not done anything. And the rest of its details are in Tractate Negaim (see Mishneh Torah, Laws of Defilement by Leprosy 10).
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