[Avodah] Tum'at Yadayim

[Arie Folger]

RMB wrote:
> Given that at the time of the beraisa's quotes, both were TSBP, it can
> not be ruled out in principle that tum'ah doesn't affect words.
> Rather, it would seem to be about miqra, and possibly even the
> physical scroll.

Which "both were TSBP?" You mentioned Mishnah, what is the second TSBP 
component being discussed according to you?

> Which may be why Shabbos 14a describes the gezeira as being about a
> seifer Torah being metamei. MideOraisa, only a tamei can be metamei.
> But this is a gezeira. If one wants, one could have said the chakhamim
> made everything that touches a seifer Torah tamei. But it seems from
> the zav that the seifer Torah itself was placed mideOraisa outside the
> realm of tum'ah.

Pardon me, but I didn't understand you. What proof do you have from a zav that 
the ST doesn't biblically contract tum'a?

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