Mesorat%20hashas for Yoma 60:7

לא קשיא הא דטביל הא דלא טביל אי דלא טביל הערב שמש בעי אלא אידי ואידי דטביל הא דאסח דעתיה הא דלא אסח דעתיה

- Because he wants to raise another objection, viz. , [why was it called] the cell of the lepers, because lepers immerse themselves therein.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [Before they entered the Temple Court on the eighth day in the morning; when standing at the Nicanor Gate they thrust their thumb and toe into the Temple Court, there to receive an application of the blood of the guilt-offering and of oil; v. Lev. XIV, 14ff and supra ');">⁷</span> R'Judah says: Not only of the lepers did they say [this] but of every man [who enters the Temple Court]?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' 'Not only of the lepers' implies the lepers at any rate, hence he would consider a re-immersion necessary, which contradicts his earlier statement.');">⁸</span>

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