<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">R' Micha wrote:<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: -webkit-monospace; ">Similarly, tum'ah may be only defined in relation to a baseline. If the<br>whole tzibur is tamei, it's like sea level shifted.</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">I don't see the analogy because tum'ah is caused by contact with </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">the dead. So the fact that it is disregarded because of the tzibbur,</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">doesn't change its complexion. </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">The examples you give have to do with relative things. Tumah is tumah</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">and can be overlooked for the greater good, but I don't see how that is </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">the same as voltage, mountain height or polar ice caps.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">Tell me what I'm missing.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">K.T.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">ri</font></div></body></html>