Mesorat%20hashas for Shabbat 32:10

ואידך מאי היא דתנן כל המטלטלי' מביאין את הטומאה בעובי המרדע אמר רבי טרפון

are niddoth<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Pl. of niddah, a menstruant woman. ');">²⁷</span> from their cradles.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., from birth they are treated as unclean, like a niddah. The purpose of this enactment was to discourage intermarriage with them (Tosaf.). ');">²⁸</span> And what is another? For we learnt: All movable objects induce uncleanness by the thickness of an ox-goad.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This refers to the defilement caused by a dead person, not by contact but through the fact that both the dead person and the object defiled are under the same covering, e.g., the roof of a house or an overhead awning (cf. Num. XIX, 14f), which induces uncleanness to the object defiled. The width of the covering object must not be less than the thickness of an ox-goad, for which v. infra 17a. ');">²⁹</span> Said R. Tarfon,

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