Hello hevra and welcome back to our pre-Pesach Mishnayos series where we continue to learn Mishnayos related to the period of time between Purim and Pesach. We are continuing talking about Erev Pesach. And we are dealing with those tough Mishnayos that deal with this period of time because it was so busy that period of time. And we are continuing to talk about people wanted to bring their Karban Pesach. So we said how do you buy it on Shabbos, we talked about whether or not you needed to be concerned about Oso Ve'es Beno. We talked about a Ger who wants to bring the Karban Pesach and whether a Ger who is Megiayer on Erev Pesach can he bring eat the Karban Pesach that evening. And now we turn to a very fascinating Mishna, one of the more descriptive Mishnayos that we will deal with. And it all starts because Rabbi Akiva is walking in the marketplace with his Rabbeyim Rabban Gamliel and Rabbi Yehoshua. They're actually in the marketplace looking for an animal for Rabban Gamliel's child's wedding. And as they walk around the marketplace, the Maseches Mishna here that we're talking about tonight is in כריתות מסכת כריתות פרק ג משנה ד. In Mishna Zayin we learn that they're walking around getting ready for the wedding and instead of talking about sports or the weather, they are talking in learning and Rabbi Akiva is asking his Rabbeyim questions. So the Mishna begins ועוד שאלן רבי עקיבא. Rabbi Akiva asked them a question. אבר המדולדל בבהמה מהו. You have a limb of an animal. So somebody, there's an animal and it has one of its limbs, one of its arms, let's say, is almost fully detached from it. It's not completely detached, it's hanging on literally by a thread. And the question is, does just we know that an animal that dies gives off Tumas Neveilah, a particularly serious type of Tumah that can make you Tamei. And the question is whether or not if you have an Ever, one limb that is kind of hanging on for dear life to the animal, does that itself give off Tumas Neveilah as well, or only once it separates completely from the animal will it have Tumas Neveilah. So Amru Lo, his Rabbeyim Rabban Gamliel and Rabbi Yehoshua say they say back to Rabbi Akiva Lo Shamanu. You know what, and it's okay, we don't know, we don't know specifically, we don't have a particular tradition about this Halakha. Aval Shamanu, but we did have a similar tradition and maybe we can learn from that. Be'ever Hameduldal Ba'adam when it comes to a person, as we know a person that dies, he gives off Tumeh Mais, a very serious type of Tumah, the highest form of Tumah. And the question is what is the Halakha when it's, and an Ever of a person also would give off Tumah as well. But what about Ever Hameduldal Ba'adam? What happens if you have a single a limb that is also hanging on by a thread to a person Shehu Tahor, but we know that in that instance that it is actually Tahor. So for that they have the tradition, that that limb hanging on by a thread is actually Tahor. And how do they know? He says like this, this is the very descriptive part of our Mishna. שכך היו מוכי שחין שבירושלים עושין. They said because you know what, here is what would happen in Yerushalayim. In the time of the Beis Hamikdash, they would want to bring a Karban Pesach. Now, if you become Tamei Mais, right, you cannot be bring a Karban Pesach. You would be, you wouldn't be allowed to because you can't enter into the Beis Hamikdash, you can't eat Kodshim, you can't eat the Karban. So the question is like this: you had a Mukay Shchin. Mukay Shchin is a type of person has a sickness, maybe he had boils, something that was causing his limbs to deteriorate and kind of fall off of him. And so, and so you needed to amputate that limb. Now, in order to, that limb when it's amputated, will become Tamei and you don't want to touch it because again, you don't want to be Tamei in order to bring the Karban Pesach. So what would you do? הולך לו ערב פסח אצל הרופא. He would go Erev Pesach. So that's why this Mishna's related to Erev Pesach. He would go Erev Pesach to the doctor and the doctor would take the, would look at him and would want to perform a surgery to remove the limb. He needed to amputate the limb. But how would he do it? וחותכו עד שהוא מניח בו כשאורה. He would sever the limb, he would take his scalpel, his knife, and he would sever it until there was just a little little little bit of attachment, really as thin as thin of a of a piece of of, I don't know if it was a vein, a sinew, something that was attaching the limb to the body, but really just a little bit. Vetochavo Besira and he would put the limb, he would put it like, he would take like a thorn or something of like that, a stake or a thorn, and he would put it through the limb. Vehu Nimshach Mimenu and the sick person would pull away, so his limb would be stuck with the stake in the ground so it wouldn't move, and then as he walked away, the limb would fall off of him but he would never touch it, so he didn't become Tamei. Vahala Oso Pischos and now he was Tahar and he can go make his Karban Pesach. Veharofeh Oseh Pischos can make his Karban Pesach because he never touched the limb that was completely severed from the body. So each of them would remain Tahor. ורואין אנו שהדברים קל וחומר. And so the Rabbeyim Rabban Gamliel and Rabbi Yehoshua conclude. Well it would strike us that this is a kal vachomer, meaning to say that if when it comes to tumas meis, a limb that is hanging on by a thread does not create tuma, it must be the case that tumas neveila, which is not as strong as tumas meis, it’s strong but it’s not as strong, would also be tahor as long as it’s attached even by a little bit. And as you can see the lengths that people went to in order to remain tahor in order to be able to bring the korban pesach. And with that I wish you continuing hatzlacha in all of your endeavors.