Audio by Shloimy Zelcer

Mishnah Niddah 5:2: If a man was eating terumah [a portion of a crop given to the priests which can only be consumed by priests or their household] and he felt his limbs tremble violently [i.e. he had a seminal emission], he should hold his member [to prevent the discharge] and swallow the terumah [already in his mouth, since one is forbidden to consume terumah while impure]. And they [the discharges of a zav or a ba'al keri] render impurity in any amount, even the size of a mustard seed, or smaller than that.

הָיָה אוֹכֵל בַּתְּרוּמָה וְהִרְגִּישׁ שֶׁנִּזְדַּעְזְעוּ אֵבָרָיו, אוֹחֵז בָּאַמָּה וּבוֹלֵעַ אֶת הַתְּרוּמָה. וּמְטַמְּאִים בְּכָל שֶׁהוּא, אֲפִלּוּ כְעֵין הַחַרְדָּל וּבְפָחוֹת מִכָּן:

Mishnah Niddah 5:3: A baby girl one day old can become impure as a niddah. At ten days old she can become impure as a zavah [a female who has certain types of atypical genital discharges, distinct from her menses, which render her impure]. A baby boy one day old can become impure as a zav, or impure by having nega'im [diseased patches on skin, clothes, or houses that create impurity], or impure through [contact with] the impurity of a corpse; and he creates a bond for yibum [the obligation to perform Levirate marriage]; and he can exempt one from requiring yibum [i.e. if his father dies, he counts as a son to except any of his uncles from having to do yibum]; and he can feed terumah [i.e. his existence can render terumah permissible to one for whom it was formerly forbidden]; and he can render terumah to be forbidden [to one who was formerly permitted to eat it]; and he can inherit or cause others to inherit [portions of an estate]; and one who kills him is liable [for murder]; and he is thereby fully like a son-in-law to his father and to his mother and for all his relatives.

תִּינוֹקֶת בַּת יוֹם אֶחָד, מִטַּמְּאָה בְנִדָּה. בַּת עֲשָׂרָה יָמִים, מִטַּמְּאָה בְזִיבָה. תִּינוֹק בֶּן יוֹם אֶחָד, מִטַּמֵּא בְזִיבָה, וּמִטַּמֵּא בִנְגָעִים, וּמִטַּמֵּא בִטְמֵא מֵת, וְזוֹקֵק לְיִבּוּם, וּפוֹטֵר מִן הַיִּבּוּם, וּמַאֲכִיל בַּתְּרוּמָה, וּפוֹסֵל מִן הַתְּרוּמָה, וְנוֹחֵל וּמַנְחִיל. וְהַהוֹרְגוֹ, חַיָּב. וַהֲרֵי הוּא לְאָבִיו וּלְאִמּוֹ וּלְכָל קְרוֹבָיו כְּחָתָן שָׁלֵם:

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