[Avodah] Rav Melamed on Metal Pots

[Zev Sero via Avodah]

On 31/10/16 12:11, Micha Berger via Avodah wrote:
> Also, kelei Midyan is about tevilas keilim, not kashering. They require
> the miqvah even if they were never used before; just as something could
> need kashering after Jewish use.

The pasuk is explicitly about kashering: "Whatever is used in fire you 
shall pass through fire and then clean it in a mikveh, and whatever is 
not used in fire you shall pass through [boiling] water."   Whether it 
is *also* about tevilas kelim is AIUI a machlokes rishonim; some hold 
that tevilas kelim is midrabanan, and the pasuk is only an asmachta.

-- 
Zev Sero                Hit the road, Jack
zev at sero.name           but please come back once more