Mesorat%20hashas for Kiddushin 49:9

והתניא על לשונו ועוד תניא ושניטל רוב הלשון רבי אומר רוב המדבר שבלשונו

and the sprinkling[-water] spurts on to his [the unclean man's] mouth, - Rabbi said: He has [validly] besprinkled him;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., he is clean, though the sprinkling must be upon the revealed parts of his body.');">¹³</span> but the Sages maintain: He has not [validly] besprinkled him. Surely that means upon his tongue?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Shewing that Rabbi regards the tongue as an exposed limb, and thus contradicting his exclusion of the tongue in the case of a slave.');">¹⁴</span>

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