Mesorat%20hashas for Pesachim 38:14

משום דהוי ספק טומאה הבאה בידי אדם ואמר רבי יוחנן ספק טומאה הבאה בידי אדם

Now according to Rab who said, ' E.g. if one lost a needle [unclean through] a person defiled by the dead, and he recognized it in the flesh? - [But] surely since a Master said, The [verse] 'one slain by the sword' [teaches that] the sword is as the slain,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra ');">²⁰</span> let it defile human beings and utensils too?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sc. the priest and the knife.');">²¹</span> - Said R'Ashi: This proves that the Temple Court ranks as public ground; so that it is a doubt of uncleanness<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' It is doubtful whether the priest or knife have touched the needle.');">²²</span> in public ground, and every doubt of uncleanness in public ground, the doubt is clean. But in private ground,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., if the Temple Court ranked as private ground.');">²³</span> its doubt is clean?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And the priest and knife would be unclean.');">²⁴</span> Consider: this needle is an object which has no understanding to be questioned, and everything which has no understanding to be questioned, both in public and in private ground, its doubt is clean?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' v. Sot. 28b.');">²⁵</span> - Because it is a doubt of uncleanness which arises through a person,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A man has been engaged about this animal, and if the knife had touched the needle it would have been through him.');">²⁶</span> and R'Johanan said: A doubt of uncleanness which arises through a person,

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