Audio by Michael Sokolow

Mishnah Negaim 6:7: There are twenty-four tips of limbs on man that do not become impure due to a healthy patch [seen in a Nega]: The tips of the fingers of the hands and feet [i.e. toes], the tips of the ears, the tip of the nose, the tip of the male organ, the tips of the breasts on a woman. Rabbi Yehuda says: Even on a man. Rabbi Eliezer says: Even warts and thin-necked warts do not become impure due to a healthy patch [in the Nega].

עֶשְׂרִים וְאַרְבָּעָה רָאשֵׁי אֵבָרִין בָּאָדָם שֶׁאֵינָן מִטַּמְּאִין מִשּׁוּם מִחְיָה, רָאשֵׁי אֶצְבְּעוֹת יָדַיִם וְרַגְלַיִם, וְרָאשֵׁי אָזְנַיִם, וְרֹאשׁ הַחֹטֶם, וְרֹאשׁ הַגְּוִיָּה, וְרָאשֵׁי הַדַּדִּים שֶׁבָּאִשָּׁה. רַבִּי יְהוּדָה אוֹמֵר, אַף שֶׁל אִישׁ. רַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר אוֹמֵר, אַף הַיַּבָּלוֹת וְהַדִּלְדּוּלִין אֵינָן מִטַּמְּאִין מִשּׁוּם מִחְיָה:

Mishnah Negaim 6:8: These are the places on man that do not become impure due to a Baheret: inside the eye, inside the ear, inside the nose, inside the mouth, the folds [of skin on body], the folds on the neck, under the breast, the armpit, the sole of the foot, the nail, the head, [the skin of] the beard, the boil and the burn and the blister that are unhealed; [these] do not make Negaim impure and do not combine [to make impure] in [other] Negaim and a Nega cannot expand into them and they are not made impure by a healthy patch of skin [in them] and they do not prevent a person who turned completely white [due to his Nega, from becoming pure]. If the head or beard returned and became bald [or if] the boils, the burns or the blister grew a scab, behold these can make Negaim impure but do not combine [to make impure] in [other] Negaim and a Nega cannot expand into them and they are not made impure by a healthy patch of skin [in them], but they do prevent a person who turned completely white [due to his Nega, from becoming pure]. The head or the beard [of someone] who has not yet grown hair [in them] and the thin-necked warts on the head or in the beard are judged as flesh of the body.

אֵלּוּ מְקוֹמוֹת בָּאָדָם שֶׁאֵינָן מִטַּמְּאִין בְּבַהֶרֶת, תּוֹךְ הָעַיִן, תּוֹךְ הָאֹזֶן, תּוֹךְ הַחֹטֶם, תּוֹךְ הַפֶּה, הַקְּמָטִין, וְהַקְּמָטִין שֶׁבַּצַּוָּאר, תַּחַת הַדַּד, וּבֵית הַשֶּׁחִי, כַּף הָרֶגֶל, וְהַצִּפֹּרֶן, הָרֹאשׁ, וְהַזָּקָן, הַשְּׁחִין וְהַמִּכְוָה וְהַקֶּדַח הַמּוֹרְדִין, אֵינָן מִטַּמְּאִין בַּנְּגָעִים, וְאֵינָן מִצְטָרְפִים בַּנְּגָעִים, וְאֵין הַנֶּגַע פּוֹשֶׂה לְתוֹכָן, וְאֵינָן מִטַּמְּאִין מִשּׁוּם מִחְיָה, וְאֵינָן מְעַכְּבִין אֶת הַהוֹפֵךְ כֻּלּוֹ לָבָן. חָזַר הָרֹאשׁ וְהַזָּקָן וְנִקְרְחוּ, הַשְּׁחִין וְהַמִּכְוָה וְהַקֶּדַח וְנַעֲשׂוּ צָרֶבֶת, הֲרֵי אֵלּוּ מִטַּמְּאִין בַּנְּגָעִים, וְאֵינָן מִצְטָרְפִין בַּנְּגָעִים, וְאֵין הַנֶּגַע פּוֹשֶׂה לְתוֹכָן, וְאֵינָן מִטַּמְּאִין מִשּׁוּם מִחְיָה, אֲבָל מְעַכְּבִין אֶת הַהוֹפֵךְ כֻּלּוֹ לָבָן. הָרֹאשׁ וְהַזָּקָן עַד שֶׁלֹּא הֶעֱלוּ שֵׂעָר, וְהַדִּלְדּוּלִין שֶׁבָּרֹאשׁ וְשֶׁבַּזָּקָן, נִדּוֹנִים כְּעוֹר הַבָּשָׂר:

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