<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 19, 2007 11:08 AM, Gershon Dubin <<a href="mailto:gershon.dubin@juno.com">gershon.dubin@juno.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>This is intended, both in the Gemara and in the Shulchan Aruch, to say that when a PERSON is tamei, he may still learn Torah. Nothing at all to do with touching KISVEI HAKODESH, whose tum'ah (one of the 18 gezeros in the 1st perek of Shabbos) is for a completely unrelated reason.
<br><br>Gershon<br><a href="mailto:gershon.dubin@juno.com">gershon.dubin@juno.com</a><br><br></blockquote></div>Correct. The G'zeriah is to keep T'rumah away from Kisvei Kodesh lest mice feed on the scrolls. <br>
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