Reflections on today’s chapter of Mishne Tora: If tumá was some kind of contaminant, it should follow normal rules of contamination; instead, in a scenario where someone is carrying multiple items stacked on their back and the top item becomes tamé, the tumá affects only the top item and then “passes through” the underlying items without affecting them, to finally affect the human carrying them.
Explain THAT in terms of contamination.
And furthermore – what kind of contamination affects humans, but no other animal? 🧐