Jewish%20thought for Shabbat 164:3

ולר' עקיבא למאי הלכתא איתקש לשרץ למשמשי' ולרבנן למאי הלכתא איתקש לנדה למשא ולוקשה רחמנא לנבלה אין הכי נמי אלא מה נדה אינה לאברין אף ע"ז אינה לאברין ואלא הא דבעי רב חמא בר גוריא ע"ז ישנה לאברין או אינה לאברין תיפשוט ליה מהא דלרבנן אינה לאברין רב חמא בר גוריא אליבא דרבי עקיבא בעי לה

— In respect of its service utensils.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The utensils used in an idol's service do not defile through carriage or through a cavity-closing stone. ');">⁶</span> And according to the Rabbis, in respect of which law is it likened to <i>niddah</i>? — In respect of carriage. Then let it be likened to <i>nebelah</i>?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Glos. This analogy would give the exact law, whereas the analogy with niddah has to be qualified by a further analogy with sherez. ');">⁷</span> That indeed is so, but [the analogy with <i>niddah</i> teaches:] just as a <i>niddah</i> is not [a source of contamination] through her [separate] limbs,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If a limb e.g., an arm, is cut off from a niddah, it defiles as the severed limb of a living human being in general, but not as niddah. The practical difference is that it does not defile through a cavity-closing stone. ');">⁸</span>

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