Quoting%20commentary for Niddah 84:56

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is clean, but if he holds <i>nebelah</i> in a fold of his body he is unclean. 'A man holding a dead creeping thing in a fold of his body is clean', since a dead creeping thing conveys uncleanness by means of touch, while a concealed region of the body<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Under his arm-pit, for instance. ');">⁴⁷</span> is not susceptible to the uncleanness of touch. 'If he holds <i>nebelah</i> in a fold of his body he is unclean' for, granted that he contracts no uncleanness through touch, he contracts it, at any rate, through carriage. If a man held a dead creeping thing in the fold of his body<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Under his arm-pit, for instance. ');">⁴⁸</span> and he thus brought it into the air spaces<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Without touching its sides. ');">⁴⁹</span> of an oven<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Of earthenware. ');">⁵⁰</span> the latter is unclean. Is not this obvious?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Apparently it is, since all earthen vessels contract uncleanness from a dead creeping thing within their air spaces though there was no direct contact between it and the creeping thing. ');">⁵¹</span> — It might have been presumed that the All Merciful said, Into the inside of which,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' E.V., 'whereinto'; Every earthen vessel whereinto any of them falleth (Lev. XI, 33). ');">⁵²</span> implying:

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