English: “You shall pour it out like water” — R’ Chiyya bar Abba said in the name of R’ Yochanan: From where do we know that the blood of sacrificial animals does not prepare [food] to receive impurity? The verse states “on the earth you shall pour it out like water.” Blood that is poured out like water prepares; blood that is not poured out like water does not prepare.
On the daf / in context: Sacrificial blood, which is dashed on the altar rather than poured on the ground, lacks the capacity to render food susceptible to tumah.
Type of Learning
Derash on the verse (Sifrei / Bavli) — the limited role of sacrificial blood in tumah.
What Is Learned
Sacrificial blood does not render foodstuffs susceptible to ritual impurity.