Ohalos 9:9-10

Ohalos 9:9

Let’s say that the beehive was entirely inside the house and there wasn’t a handbreadth of space (about 3”) between it and the rafters. If there’s impurity inside the hive, the house is rendered unclean but if there’s impurity in the house, what’s inside the hive remains clean because the nature of impurity is to exit and not to enter. This is true regardless of whether the hive is upright or lying on its side, and regardless of whether there’s one hive or two.

Ohalos 9:10

Let’s say that the hive was standing upright in the doorway and there wasn’t a handbreadth of space between it and the lintel (i.e., the horizontal support at the top of a door frame). If there’s impurity inside the hive, the house remains clean but if there’s impurity in the house, the contents of the hive are rendered unclean because the nature of impurity is to exit and not to enter.