The importance of context, when the backdrop of idolatry shows up here. Also: What’s What: Tumat Heset – the tumah that is transferred when moving an object of idolatry. Plus: A new mishnah, with another divergent, and somewhat cryptic topic, and the unpacking of it by the Gemara, about the impurity – or lack thereof – of a ship.
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