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# A closed door is considered a permanent blockage of tumah.<ref>Neeyim Zemirot p. 49 writes that a door can be a stimah olamit but if it is metal there's room to be machmir since it is mekabel tumah. Avnei Nezer OC 293:7 holds that a door is a stimah forever but struggles to prove this. Taharat Hakohanim 371:14 quotes the Avnei Nezer as primary.</ref> | # A closed door is considered a permanent blockage of tumah.<ref>Neeyim Zemirot p. 49 writes that a door can be a stimah olamit but if it is metal there's room to be machmir since it is mekabel tumah. Avnei Nezer OC 293:7 holds that a door is a stimah forever but struggles to prove this. Taharat Hakohanim 371:14 quotes the Avnei Nezer as primary.</ref> | ||
# Only items that aren't mekabel tumah are able to block tumah.<Ref>Rama YD 371:1</ref> Anything attached to the ground isn't mekabel tumah for these purposes.<ref>Taharat Kohanim 371:19 quoting Kehilat Yakov Taharot 25</ref> | # Only items that aren't mekabel tumah are able to block tumah.<Ref>Rama YD 371:1</ref> Anything attached to the ground isn't mekabel tumah for these purposes.<ref>Taharat Kohanim 371:19 quoting Kehilat Yakov Taharot 25</ref> | ||
==Alerting a Kohen of Tumah== | |||
# If a kohen is sleeping in a house where there is a dead corpse you should wake him up to tell him to leave. If he isn't wearing clothing, first tell him to just come out of the house and he'll get dressed, and only then tell him about the corpse.<ref>Rama YD 372:1</ref> | |||
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