Parshat Metzora: "Untouchables" beyond number
A link to the notes and the parsha are here.
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- If so many men and women were "untouchable" due to natural bodily emissions, who the heck was left?
- How often did one have to replace one's dishes, given that the "earthen vessels" of the person with a bodily emission had to be broken?
- And how the heck does one kill a bird in an "earthen vessel" over running water?
posted by Shira Salamone at 12:57 PM
3 Comments:
It was corporate welfare for potters. ;)
mayim chayyim would probably mean water from a mikveh (which has rainwater or seawater or somesuch).
So the "running water" would probably be mikveh water. Thanks for the info, RivkaYael.
Personally, I pity the poor birds, one of whom gets killed and the other dipped in blood (which would probably attractor predators). What did either do to deserve such a fate?
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