Chapter 9, Mishna 1

What is tumah really about and why do we study these laws?
When does tamei food impart impurity to other food?
What is minimum volume?
What about parts of animal that aren’t eaten but are attached to other parts of animal?
What combines and what doesn’t to create minimum volume that can transmit tumah?
When can bits of hide, horn, tendon etc be part of minimum volume?
What if Jew slaughters animal for gentile and it contracts and transmits tumah of food?
When does it impart status of neveila?
How is tumah of food less severe than tumah of neveila?
What is significance of hide acting as protective cover for meat?
What is law of becoming susceptible to tumah of food?
When does protection combine to create minimum measure?
Are protective components of food, ie shell, considered part of the food?
When doesn’t protection join together for minimum volume?
Does hide impart neveila impurity?
What is relevance of the term “its carcass?”
Does appendage that serves as handle provide protection?
What is law of a handle?
Does handle both import and export tumah?
When is handle considered part of vessel?
Does handle impart impurity of a neveila?
What is notable about tumah of neveila?
What is relevance of construction of oven that is not complete?
What is difference between protection and handle?
When does protection join with carcass to create minimum measure to impart tumah?
Why does protrusion combine with pomegranate to produce an egg bulk?
Why are three terms with same root written in regard to protection?
What is significance of handle re: importing and exporting tumah from attached food?
Does food itself have to come into contact with liquid directly

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