Mesorat%20hashas for Bekhorot 18:55

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the first-birth of an ass,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which was ritually slaughtered for a gentile, and as it was still struggling and not dead, it did not posses the uncleanness of nebelah (a carcass) . Therefore, if a dead reptile came in contact with it, it received the uncleanness relating to food, so that if it touched other food, it causes levitical uncleanness. The ritual slaughtering, however, helped at least to make it fit to receive the uncleanness of food. Another interpretation is that even if the ass had its neck broken and it was, therefore, nebelah, we can still apply here the principle of the uncleanness of food, if e.g., there was less of the carcass in size than an olive which, although it did not become unclean as nebelah, may yet be supplemented with other food to the required size of an egg to make it receive the uncleanness of food.');">²¹</span>

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