Halakhah for Sotah 31:7
ואם איתא ליחשוב נמי האי
perhaps, however, the phrase 'on the floor of the tabernacle' is intended to be understood according to the interpretation of Issi b. Judah and Issi b. Menahem?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If these words intend the inclusion of temporary Sanctuaries and the Temple, then 'dust' could here signify ashes. ');"><sup>7</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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