Derasha 1 on Metzora 15:27

Parashas Metzora · Passuk 15:27

The Complete Passuk

וְכָל־הַנּוֹגֵ֖עַ בָּ֑ם יְכַבֵּ֧ס בְּגָדָ֛יו וְרָחַ֥ץ בַּמַּ֖יִם וְטָמֵ֥א עַד־הָעָֽרֶב׃

Chabad.org — English translation + Rashi

Source Citation

Torah Temima points to Toras Kohanim.

Core Text of Chazal

Core Text
כָּל הַנּוֹגֵעַ בָּם — עַל יְדֵי חִבּוּרֵיהֶם.

English: “Anyone who touches them” — through their attachments [ropes, threads extending from the bed within the defined measures].

Type of Learning

Attachments included

What Is Learned

Chazal include contact with the bed’s defined attachments under the impurity of touching the midras itself (the inverse of the earlier exclusion in the zav section for certain rope lengths).