Quoting%20commentary for Yoma 23:9

ומתקינין לו כהן אחר פשיטא אירע בו פסול קודם תמיד של שחר מחנכין אותו בתמיד של שחר אלא אירע בו פסול אחר תמיד של שחר במה מחנכין אותו

i.e., until they conquer it. If they have conquered but not yet divided it among the tribes, or even divided it among the tribes but not divided it among the families, or even divided it among the families but before each man knows where his lot is, whence do we know [that the laws of leprosy do not apply yet]? To teach us that Scripture says: 'Then he who has the house to him' i.e., he to whom alone the house is belonging, excluding these [houses] which do not belong to him [the owner] alone.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Obviously then the synagogues in the villages are not subject to levitical uncleanness, hence the alternate answer above, 'One speaks of' synagogues in metropoles, the other of synagogues in villages', is unsatisfactory.');">¹⁵</span>

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