הלכות טומאת מת כ׳Defilement by a Corpse 20

Halacha 4ד׳

וְכַמָּה תִּשְׁהֶא הַטֻּמְאָה בְּמֵעֵיהֶן וְתִהְיֶה מְטַמְּאָה כְּשֶׁיָּמוּתוּ. בְּכֶלֶב שְׁלֹשָׁה יָמִים מֵעֵת לְעֵת. וּבִשְׁאָר חַיָּה וּבְהֵמָה וְעוֹפוֹת וְדָגִים יוֹם אֶחָד מֵעֵת לְעֵת. בַּמֶּה דְּבָרִים אֲמוּרִים כְּשֶׁנִּשְׁאַר בְּשַׂר הַמֵּת בְּתוֹךְ מֵעֵיהֶן. אֲבָל זְאֵב שֶׁבָּלַע תִּינוֹק וֶהֱקִיאוֹ דֶּרֶךְ בֵּית הָרְעִי. הַבָּשָׂר טָהוֹר וְהָעֲצָמוֹת בְּטֻמְאָתָן:

And how long may the impurity remain within their bowels and still convey impurity when they die? In a dog, three days, reckoned from time to time; and in the other wild animals, and domestic animals, and birds, and fish, one day, reckoned from time to time. To what does this apply? When the flesh of the corpse has remained within their bowels. But a wolf that swallowed a child and voided it through the fundament — the flesh is pure and the bones remain in their impurity.

Halacha 5ה׳

אֵין הַבְּלוּעִין נִצָּלִין אֶלָּא בְּבֶטֶן נֶפֶשׁ הַחַיָּה כְּמוֹ שֶׁבֵּאַרְנוּ. אֲבָל הַבְּלוּעִין בְּגוּף הַכֵּלִים וְהָאֲבָנִים אֵינָן נִצָּלִין. כֵּיצַד. כּוּשׁ שֶׁנִּבְלְעָה בּוֹ הַצִּנּוֹר שֶׁל מַתֶּכֶת. וּמַלְמָד שֶׁנִּבְלַע בּוֹ הַדָּרְבָן. וּלְבֵנָה שֶׁהָיְתָה טַבַּעַת מֻבְלַעַת בְּתוֹכָהּ. וְנִכְנְסוּ לְאֹהֶל הַמֵּת. נִטְמְאוּ אַף עַל פִּי שֶׁאֵין נִרְאִין וַהֲרֵי הֵן מְחֻפִּין שֶׁאֵין הַבְּלוּעִין בַּכֵּלִים מַצִּילִין אֶלָּא בְּצָמִיד פָּתִיל. וְכֵן מַחַט אוֹ טַבַּעַת שֶׁהָיוּ מֻבְלָעִין בִּטְפֵלַת הַתַּנּוּר וְנִטְמָא הַתַּנּוּר בְּאֹהֶל הַמֵּת אוֹ שֶׁנָּפַל שֶׁרֶץ לַאֲוִירוֹ נִטְמְאוּ הַכֵּלִים שֶׁבְּתוֹךְ הַטְּפֵלָה. וְאִם הָיָה הַתַּנּוּר מֻקָּף צָמִיד פָּתִיל הוֹאִיל וְהַתַּנּוּר טָהוֹר אַף הַכֵּלִים הַמֻּבְלָעִין בַּטִּיט שֶׁעַל גַּבָּיו טְהוֹרִים. וְכֵן חָבִית הַמֻּקֶּפֶת צָמִיד פָּתִיל וְהָיְתָה מַחַט אוֹ טַבַּעַת בִּמְגוּפַת הֶחָבִית מִצִּדָּהּ. הֲרֵי אֵלּוּ טְמֵאִין וְאֵין מַצִּילִין בְּאֹהֶל הַמֵּת. הָיוּ בִּמְגוּפַת הֶחָבִית כְּנֶגֶד פִּיהָ אִם הָיוּ נִרְאִין לְתוֹךְ הֶחָבִית וְאֵינָן יוֹצְאִין לַאֲוִירָהּ טְהוֹרִין. וְאִם יָצְאוּ לַאֲוִירָהּ טְמֵאִין. שֶׁאֵין כְּלִי חֶרֶשׂ הַמֻּקָּף צָמִיד פָּתִיל מַצִּיל עַל הַכֵּלִים שֶׁבְּתוֹכוֹ כְּמוֹ שֶׁיִּתְבָּאֵר. וְאִם יֵשׁ תַּחְתֵּיהֶן כִּקְלִפַּת הַשּׁוּם אַף עַל פִּי שֶׁהֵן שׁוֹקְעִין לְתוֹךְ אֲוִירָהּ הֲרֵי אֵלּוּ טְהוֹרִין:

Things swallowed are protected only within the belly of a living creature, as we have explained; but things swallowed within the body of vessels or of stones are not protected. How so? A spindle in which the metal shaft is swallowed up, and an ox-goad in which the metal point is swallowed up, and a brick within which a ring was swallowed up, and they entered the tent of a corpse — they have become impure, even though they are not visible and are covered over; for things swallowed within vessels are protected only by a tightly sealed cover. So too a needle or a ring that were swallowed up in the plaster coating of an oven, and the oven became impure in the tent of a corpse, or a creeping thing fell into its airspace — the vessels that are within the plaster coating have become impure. And if the oven was closed with a tightly sealed cover, since the oven is pure, the vessels swallowed up in the clay that is upon it are pure as well. So too a jar closed with a tightly sealed cover, with a needle or a ring in the stopper of the jar at its side — these are impure, and they are not protected in the tent of a corpse. If they were in the stopper of the jar opposite its mouth: if they were visible within the jar and do not come out into its airspace, they are pure; and if they came out into its airspace, they are impure — for an earthenware vessel closed with a tightly sealed cover does not protect the vessels that are within it, as will be explained. And if there is beneath them the thickness of a garlic's skin, then although they sink into its airspace, these are pure.