Reference for Menachot 47:17

אמר ליה אביי ומי אמרינן שבע ליה טומאה והתנן סדין טמא

And if you were to decide that since there is a connection it is united thereby, this further question will arise: How is it where there is a connection by water [with one of the halves inside the vessel] and the vessel unites [the halves that are therein], and then a tebul yom touched the part that was outside?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The question is whether in the reverse process, where the uncleanness is to be brought in from the outside into the vessel, the connection mentioned would serve as a link so as to convey the uncleanness within.');">²³</span> Does the rule which tacles, since the sides of the inner receptacle separate the contents of the one we have learnt that with consecrated things a vessel unites all that is therein, apply only to the case where [the uncleanness] came into contact with what was inside but not where it came into contact with what was outside; or perhaps this makes no difference? - These questions remain undecided. Raba raised the following question: What is the position if a tenth was divided into halves and one of the halves became unclean; afterwards these two halves were placed in the mixing vessel<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And there was no contact between them. At this stage there is no doubt at all that the other half-tenth is not unclean, since at the time when one half-tenth contracted uncleanness it was not in the vessel with the other half-tenth.');">²⁴</span> and a tebul yom touched that [half] which was already unclean? Do we say that it is sated with uncleanness<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., once it has been rendered unclean it cannot suffer any further uncleanness, so that the other half-tenth that is now with it in the vessel remains clean.');">²⁵</span> or not? Said Abaye to him, Do we then say that a thing can be sated with uncleanness? Surely we have learnt:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Kel. XXVII, 9. xrsn');">²⁶</span> If a sheet which had contracted midras<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Heb. That degree of uncleanness arising when an unclean person, of those mentioned in Lev. XV, 4 and 25, lies or sits or treads upon or leans with the body against an object, provided that such object was fit and generally used for one of the above purposes.');">²⁷</span> uncleanness

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