Mesorat%20hashas for Pesachim 33:14

אלא אי סבר לי' כרב דאמר דכן ממש היכי משכחת לה על כרחך כשמואל סבירא ליה

And according to Samuel, it is well if he holds as Rab who learned, 'The liquids of the slaughter-house', but the liquids of the altar can even defile others: [hence] it is only a fourth degree which cannot make a fifth, but a third can make a fourth.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And for that reason Haggai put his question as to whether the wine, a fourth, could render the oil unfit as a fifth degree of uncleanness, and they rightly gave a negative reply.');">¹⁷</span> But if he holds as Levi who learned, 'The liquids of the altar', why particularly [ask about] a fourth, which cannot make a fifth; they cannot even make a second or a third?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Wine and oil, whatever their uncleanness, cannot defile others.');">¹⁸</span>

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