Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Musar for Yevamot 149:4

ואי כתב רחמנא עד מלאת הוה אמינא אפילו בלא טבילה כתב רחמנא עד אשר יטהר

it might have been assumed [to apply to such a person] as is not liable to bring a sacrifice, but in the case of one who is liable it might have been presumed that cleanness is not effected before he has brought his atonement, hence the All Merciful wrote, Until … be fulfilled.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. XII, 4. which speaks of a woman after childbirth, who is liable to bring a sacrifice and is, nevertheless, regarded as clean in respect of terumah immediately after the sunset of the last day of the prescribed period. ');"><sup>9</sup></span> And had the All Merciful written only, Until&nbsp;… be fulfilled,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra n. 24. ');"><sup>10</sup></span> it might have been presumed that cleanness may be effected even without ablution, hence did the All Merciful write, Until he be clean.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XXII, 4. ');"><sup>6</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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