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* Are wide flat wooden utensils tameh? Tosfot Sukkah and Menachot in one answer say that a large flat baker’s tray is rabbinically susceptible to tumah because it is so wide and useful like a utensil with a receptacle. Tosfot (Eruvin 31a s.v. bpeshutei) quotes the Ri as agreeing. This idea is based on Rashi Menachot 96b s.v. tameha. Rashba (Bava Batra 66b s.v. vyesh) quotes some who say that any tray which serves utensils and not people is susceptible to rabbinic tumah. Shach 201:45 writes that flat wooden utensils aren’t susceptible to rabbinic tumah. | * Are wide flat wooden utensils tameh? Tosfot Sukkah and Menachot in one answer say that a large flat baker’s tray is rabbinically susceptible to tumah because it is so wide and useful like a utensil with a receptacle. Tosfot (Eruvin 31a s.v. bpeshutei) quotes the Ri as agreeing. This idea is based on Rashi Menachot 96b s.v. tameha. Rashba (Bava Batra 66b s.v. vyesh) quotes some who say that any tray which serves utensils and not people is susceptible to rabbinic tumah. Shach 201:45 writes that flat wooden utensils aren’t susceptible to rabbinic tumah. | ||
* Is a cane susceptible to tumah? The Rambam (Pirush Mishnayot Mikavot 5:5) writes that even though it has no receptacle it is still tameh rabbinically. The Chazon Ish (Mikvaot 7:5) explains that it has tumah because it services people and utensils or alternatively it has a small receptacle. However, the Rosh (Pirush Mishnayot Mikvaot 5:5 and Hilchot Mikvaot n. 11) hold that a cane doesn’t have tumah at all. Tosfot Yom Tov (Mikvaot 5:5) and Simla 201:84 point out this dispute.</ref> | * Is a cane susceptible to tumah? The Rambam (Pirush Mishnayot Mikavot 5:5) writes that even though it has no receptacle it is still tameh rabbinically. The Chazon Ish (Mikvaot 7:5) explains that it has tumah because it services people and utensils or alternatively it has a small receptacle. However, the Rosh (Pirush Mishnayot Mikvaot 5:5 and Hilchot Mikvaot n. 11) hold that a cane doesn’t have tumah at all. Tosfot Yom Tov (Mikvaot 5:5) and Simla 201:84 point out this dispute.</ref> | ||
===Attached to the ground=== | |||
# A flat metal utensil is susceptible to tumah unless it is made to be attached to the ground and is attached to the ground.<ref>Dagul Mirvava on 201:48, Mikveh Mayim p. 153 and 169 citing Igrot Moshe</ref> | |||
===If the water would have reached the mikveh anyway=== | ===If the water would have reached the mikveh anyway=== | ||
# If the mikveh is created with something that is susceptible to tumah, but the water would have flowed that way anyway to create the mikveh, the mikveh is valid.<ref>Rosh (Mikvaot 4:2), Shulchan Aruch Y.D. 201:35, Shach 201:103. However, Chazon Ish YD 135:2 disagrees with Rosh. Chelkat Binyamin 201:680 writes that we shouldn't rely on Rosh about this question. </ref> | # If the mikveh is created with something that is susceptible to tumah, but the water would have flowed that way anyway to create the mikveh, the mikveh is valid.<ref>Rosh (Mikvaot 4:2), Shulchan Aruch Y.D. 201:35, Shach 201:103. However, Chazon Ish YD 135:2 disagrees with Rosh. Chelkat Binyamin 201:680 writes that we shouldn't rely on Rosh about this question. </ref> | ||
