## Chullin Daf 9b

###### Chullin 9b:1
[Chullin 9b:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Chullin/r/9b:1)

חוֹשְׁשִׁין שֶׁמָּא בִּמְקוֹם נֶקֶב נָקַב.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**one is concerned that perhaps** the bird or the mouse **perforated** it **in the place of** the preexisting **perforation** caused by a snake, and it is prohibited to eat the fig or the melon, due to the danger that the snake might have left its venom.


###### Chullin 9b:2
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אֲמַר לֵיהּ: מִי קָא מְדַמֵּית אִיסּוּרָא לְסַכַּנְתָּא? סַכָּנָה שָׁאנֵי! אֲמַר לֵיהּ רָבָא: מַאי שְׁנָא? סְפֵק סַכַּנְתָּא לְחוּמְרָא? סְפֵק אִיסּוּרָא נָמֵי לְחוּמְרָא!

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
Rav Huna **said to** Rabbi Abba: **Are you comparing danger to prohibition? Danger is different,** and one rules stringently in cases involving danger. **Rava said to him: What is different** about the fact that the ruling in cases of **uncertainty** involving **danger** is **stringent,** given that in cases of **uncertainty** involving **prohibition** the ruling is **also stringent?**


###### Chullin 9b:3
[Chullin 9b:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Chullin/r/9b:3)

אֲמַר לֵיהּ אַבָּיֵי: וְלָא שָׁאנֵי בֵּין אִיסּוּרָא לְסַכַּנְתָּא? וְהָא אִילּוּ סְפֵק טוּמְאָה בִּרְשׁוּת הָרַבִּים – סְפֵיקוֹ טָהוֹר, וְאִילּוּ סְפֵק מַיִם מְגוּלִּין – אֲסוּרִין!

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**Abaye said to** Rava: **And is there no difference between prohibition and danger? But isn’t** it the *halakha* that in a case of **uncertainty** involving **ritual impurity in the public domain, its uncertain** impurity leaves it **pure, while** in a case of **uncertainty** involving **water** that is **exposed** and therefore susceptible to a snake leaving venom in it, the water is **forbidden.**


###### Chullin 9b:4
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אֲמַר לֵיהּ: הָתָם הִלְכְתָא גְּמִירִי לַהּ מִסּוֹטָה, מָה סוֹטָה בִּרְשׁוּת הַיָּחִיד – אַף טוּמְאָה בִּרְשׁוּת הַיָּחִיד.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
Rava **said to** Abaye: **There,** in the case of ritual impurity in the public domain, the Sages **learned this *halakha* through tradition from** the case of **a *sota*,** a woman who enters into seclusion with a particular man after her husband warns her not to. She is forbidden to her husband even though there is uncertainty whether or not she committed adultery. **Just as a *sota* is** forbidden only in a case of uncertainty **in the private domain,** as there is no seclusion in the public domain; **so too** with regard to **ritual impurity,** one becomes ritually impure in a case of uncertainty only **in the private domain.**


###### Chullin 9b:5
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מֵתִיב רַב שִׁימִי: שֶׁרֶץ בְּפִי חוּלְדָּה, וְחוּלְדָּה מְהַלֶּכֶת עַל גַּבֵּי כִּכָּרוֹת שֶׁל תְּרוּמָה – סָפֵק נָגַע, סָפֵק לֹא נָגַע – סְפֵיקוֹ טָהוֹר, וְאִילּוּ סְפֵק מַיִם מְגוּלִּין אֲסוּרִין!

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**Rav Shimi raises an objection** to the opinion of Rava from a mishna (*Teharot* 4:2): If the carcass of **a creeping animal** was **in the mouth of a weasel, and** that **weasel** was **walking on loaves of *teruma*,** and there is **uncertainty** whether the creeping animal **touched** the loaves and **uncertainty** whether it **did not touch** the loaves, **its uncertain** impurity leaves it **pure, while** in a case of **uncertainty** involving **water** that is **exposed** and therefore susceptible to a snake leaving venom in it, the water is **forbidden.**


###### Chullin 9b:6
[Chullin 9b:6](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Chullin/r/9b:6)

הָתָם נָמֵי הִלְכְתָא גְּמִירִי לַהּ מִסּוֹטָה: מָה סוֹטָה דָּבָר שֶׁיֵּשׁ בָּהּ דַּעַת לִישָּׁאֵל, אַף הָכָא נָמֵי דָּבָר שֶׁיֵּשׁ בּוֹ דַּעַת לִישָּׁאֵל.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The Gemara answers: **There too, the *halakha* is derived from** the case of **a *sota*. Just as** the uncertainty in the case of ***sota*** involves **an entity that has consciousness** in order for her **to be asked** whether she was unfaithful and is forbidden to her husband, **so too here,** only uncertainty involving **an entity that has consciousness** in order for it **to be asked** whether the loaves were rendered impure would become impure. The weasel does not have that consciousness.


###### Chullin 9b:7
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אָמַר רַב אָשֵׁי, תָּא שְׁמַע: צְלוֹחִית שֶׁהִנִּיחָהּ מְגוּלָּה וּבָא וּמְצָאָהּ מְכוּסָּה – טְמֵאָה, שֶׁאֲנִי אוֹמֵר: אָדָם טָמֵא נִכְנַס לְשָׁם וְכִיסָּהּ.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**Rav Ashi said: Come** and **hear** additional proof that danger is more severe than prohibition (see mishna *Para* 11:1): In the case of **a flask** of purification water **that one left exposed and he came** back **and found it covered,** it is **ritually impure, as I say: An impure man entered into there and covered** it, and in the course of doing so he rendered the vessel and its contents impure.


###### Chullin 9b:8
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הִנִּיחָהּ מְכוּסָּה וּבָא וּמְצָאָהּ מְגוּלָּה, אִם יְכוֹלָה חוּלְדָּה לִשְׁתּוֹת מִמֶּנָּה, אוֹ נָחָשׁ לְדִבְרֵי רַבָּן גַּמְלִיאֵל, אוֹ שֶׁיָּרַד בָּהּ טַל בַּלַּיְלָה – פְּסוּלָה.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
In a case where **one left** the vessel **covered and came** back **and found it exposed, if** it is in a place where **a weasel could drink from it, or a snake according to the statement of Rabban Gamliel, or** if there is concern **that dew fell into it at night,** the purification waters are **disqualified** for sprinkling in the process of purification of a person impure with impurity imparted by a corpse, due to the concern that the saliva of the weasel or the dew, which are unfit for sprinkling, intermingled with it. Nevertheless, the water is not impure.


###### Chullin 9b:9
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וְאָמַר רַבִּי יְהוֹשֻׁעַ בֶּן לֵוִי: מָה טַעַם?

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**And Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi says: What is the reason** that there is no concern that a ritually impure person exposed the waters and rendered them impure?