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Chapter 10, Mishna 19

In the final mishna of Tractate Eruvin we learn how to handle the carcass of a creeping animal – which imparts tumah, ritual impurity, if touched – when found in the precincts of the Holy Temple. What is the inner meaning of ritual impurity? Does it bear greater impact our time or space? And what is the basis of all Rabbinic decrees from the perspective of Rabbi Shimon?