Musar for Yevamot 149:12
והאי דאפקיה בלשון נגיעה הכי קאמר נגיעה כאכילה:
hence it was stated, And it shall be unclean.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XI, 32. ');"><sup>28</sup></span> How then [are the two to be reconciled]? The one<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The latter, Be clean. ');"><sup>29</sup></span> refers to [second] tithe and the other<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The former, Be unclean. ');"><sup>30</sup></span>
Shenei Luchot HaBerit
Commandment 168 forbids a ritually unclean person to eat any part of the sacrifices or other hallowed matter that may otherwise be eaten by someone who is ritually clean. The operative verse is "she must not touch anything that is holy" (12,4). Our sages in Makkot 14 view this as a prohibition directed at the person eating such "holy" things.
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