Mesorat%20hashas for Bava Kamma 50:12

הניחא למ"ד דון מינה ואוקי באתרא אלא למ"ד דון מינה ומינה מאי איכא למימר

— The verbal congruity in the text dealing with corpses is also 'free'. For indeed the law regarding corpses is similarly placed in juxtaposition to semen virile, as written, <i>And whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean by the dead or a man whose seed goeth from him</i> etc.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XXII, 4. ');">²³</span> Now in the case of semen virile it is explicitly stated, <i>And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the seed of copulation</i>. Why then had the Divine Law to mention again <i>raiment&nbsp;… skin</i> in the case of corpses?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Num. XXXI, 20. ');">³¹</span> It may thus be concluded that it was [inserted] to be 'free' for exegetical purposes.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Thus to make the Gezerah shawah irrefutable. ');">²⁶</span>

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