Quoting%20commentary for Yevamot 206:17

שאני התם דאמר קרא (ויקרא יג, נב) ושרף את הבגד אפילו בשעת שריפה קרוי בגד

to a corpse;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which also imparts uncleanness if a small part of it of the size of an olive only remained. Confirmed leprosy may well be compared to a corpse. Cf. Num. XII, 22: Let her not&nbsp;… be as one dead. The reference is to Miriam who was at the time leprous (v. ibid. 10) and Aaron requested Moses that she may not be confirmed in her leprosy and thus become like a corpse. ');">⁵²</span> if, however, you maintain [that the reference is to a strip] under observation<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra p. 712, n. 13 mutatis mutandis. ');">⁵³</span> why [it may be objected] was it compared to a corpse! — There<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The law of uncleanness in respect of the strip of leprous cloth. ');">⁵⁴</span> it is different,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' From the law of halizah where an object doomed to destruction is regarded as non-existent. ');">⁵⁵</span>

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