Gittin 31

הנצוק והקטפרס ומשקה טופח אינו חיבור לא לטומאה ולא לטהרה

'A jet of water [from a jug] or water flowing down a slope, or dripping water, does not form a connection so as to make [the water] unclean<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., if water is falling or dripping from a receptacle containing 'clean' water into one containing 'unclean' it does not thereby communicate the uncleanness of the lower to the upper. ');">¹</span>

לא צריכא דאיכא טופח להטפיח הא נמי תנינא טופח להטפיח חיבור

or clean?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [I.e., if a mikweh has less than 40 se'ahs, water dripping from another mikweh it cannot make up the deficiency; but v. Tosaf. s.v. [H.] ');">²</span>

דלמא לענין מקואות ורבי יהודה היא דתנן מקוה שיש בו ארבעים סאה מכוונות וירדו שנים וטבלו (שניהם בבת אחת טהורים)

— The question is still required for the case where the dripping is considerable.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'enough to make wet'. ');">³</span>

בזה אחר זה ראשון טהור והשני טמא

But regarding this also we have been taught that where the dripping is considerable, it does form a connection. — Perhaps this dictum refers only to a mikweh,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Glos. And not to the washing of the hands. ');">⁴</span>

רבי יהודה אומר אם היו רגליו של ראשון נוגעות במים אף השני טהור

and follows the opinion of R. Judah: For we learnt: 'If a mikweh contains exactly forty se'ahs of water and two persons bathe in it, if they both are in the water together they are both clean, but if one enters after the other has left, the first is clean but the second not'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [Because the first had taken away some water on the body and thus rendered the mikweh deficient from the minimum of 40 se'ahs.] ');">⁵</span>

אמר רבי ירמיה הרי אמרו הבא ראשו ורובו במים שאובין וטהור שנפלו על ראשו ועל רובו שלשה לוגין מים שאובין טמא בעי ר' ירמיה חציו בביאה וחציו בנפילה מאי תיקו

R. Judah said that if the feet of the first were still touching the water [when the second entered]. the second is also clean.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [On the principle, [H} (lit., 'stretch and bring down') whereby a partition is supposed to be prolonged so as to reach down to the ground. Similarly here the first man is treated as forming part of the partition of the mikweh reaching down to the mikweh proper. This principle may be adopted even if that of [H] 'connection' is not.] ');">⁶</span>

אמר רב פפא הרי אמרו בעל קרי חולה שנתנו עליו תשעה קבין מים טהור בעי רב פפא חציו בטבילה וחציו בנתינה מאי תיקו:

R. Jeremiah said: It has been laid down that if a person plunges the greater part of his body in water drawn [through a pipe],<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Or any vessels. And not flowing in directly without any artificial intermediary. ');">⁷</span>

אחד אומר בפני נכתב ואחד אומר כו': אמר רב שמואל בר יהודה אמר רבי יוחנן לא שנו אלא שאין הגט יוצא מתחת ידי שניהם אבל גט יוצא מתחת ידי שניהם

or if three logs of such water are poured over the greater part of the body of a clean person, he is unclean.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For eating terumah. V. Shab. 14a. ');">⁸</span> R. Jeremiah then propounded: Suppose he plunges half of his [body into such water] and three logs of it fall on the other half, is he unclean? This question was left unanswered. R. Papa said: It has been laid down that if a sick person had a seminal emission and nine <i>kabs</i> of water are thrown over him, he is clean. R. papa then asked: If he dips half his [body in water] and [water is] thrown over the other half, is he clean? This question was also left unanswered. IF ONE DECLARES, 'IT WAS WRITTEN IN MY PRESENCE AND THE OTHER, etc.' R. Samuel b. Judah said in the name of R. Johanan: This rule applies only to the case where the Get was not brought by both as joint bearers, but if it is brought by both of them