Musar for Yevamot 149:14
ר' יוחנן אמר אפי' תימא ר' מאיר שאני הכא שכבר אכלה
She shall touch no hallowed thing,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XII, 4. ');"><sup>33</sup></span> is a warning against its consumption.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Before the sunset of the last day of the prescribed period, the woman being regarded until then as a tebul yom, the 'day' (yom) being a 'long one' embracing all the days of the prescribed period. ');"><sup>34</sup></span> Perhaps it is not so, but against touching it? It was stated, She shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XII, 4. ');"><sup>33</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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