Reference for Pesachim 38:1

ונימא שאין טומאת ידים וכלים במקדש אמר רב יהודה אמר רב ואיתימא ר' יוסי בר' חנינא ידים קודם גזירת כלים נשנו

accepts R'Jose's argument. Surely then in the whole of the Talmud this view would have found expression somewhere! Then let him say, There is no uncleanness of the hands or of utensils in the Temple?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., where the uncleanness is Rabbinical only. For we see that the knife too is clean, though if this happened without the Temple it would be unclean by Rabbinical enactment, v. infra.');">¹</span>

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