Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Talmud for Zevachim 158:2

במה דברים אמורים שנתן לתוכו מים אבל לא נתן לתוכו מים אפילו עשירי טמא רבי אליעזר בן יעקב אומר שלישי אע"פ שלא נתן לתוכו מים טהור מאן שמעת ליה דאמר מין במינו לא בטיל רבי יהודה

IF IT WAS MIXED WITH THE BLOOD OF UNFIT [ANIMALS], IT MUST BE POURED OUT INTO THE DUCT [etc.] Wherein do they differ? - Said R. Zebid: They differ as to whether a preventive measure is enacted in the Temple: one master holds that we enact a preventive measure, while the other master holds that we do not enact a preventive measure. R. Papa said: All agree that we do enact a preventive measure, but here they disagree as to whether it is usual for the draining blood to exceed the life blood: one master holds that it is common, while the other master holds that it is not common. As for R. Papa, it is well: for that reason he teaches, IF IT WAS MIXED WITH THE BLOOD OF UNFIT [ANIMALS]. IT MUST BE POURED OUT INTO THE DUCT; WITH THE DRAINING BLOOD, IT MUST BE POURED OUT INTO THE DUCT. But according to R. Zebid, let him [the Tanna] combine them and teach them together? - That indeed is a difficulty.

Jerusalem Talmud Terumot

112Tosephta Ṭahorot 5:4 and Babli Zebaḥim 79b: The clay pot of the sufferer from gonorrhoea, the first and second rinses are impure but the third is pure. When has this been said? If he did put water in it, but if he did not put water in it, even the tenth is impure. Rebbi Eliezer ben Jacob said, even if no water was put in (but other, not impure people, used it), the third is pure.
It is clear that the Yerushalmi tradition cannot be reconciled with the Tosephta-Babli tradition. The concurrence of the mss. shows that the tradition is original. The Yerushalmi holds that water in a clay chamberpot becomes impure with the original impurity of the urine of a sufferer from gonorrhoea (Lev. 15); hence, presence or absence of remainders of the urine in the walls of the chamberpot becomes irrelevant.
The clay pot of the sufferer from discharge, the first is impure but the second pure. When has this been said? If he did not put water in it, but if he put water in it even the tenth is impure.”
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