Ohalos 9:15-16

Ohalos 9:15

Regarding a coffin that is wide below and narrow above, and that has a corpse in it, one who touches it below remains ritually clean but one who touches it above is rendered unclean. If the coffin is wide above and narrow below, one who touches it anywhere is rendered unclean. If the coffin is the same width throughout, Rabbi Eliezer says that one who touches it anywhere is rendered unclean, while Rabbi Yehoshua says one who touches from a handbreadth and down is clean, from that handbreadth and up is unclean. If the coffin was made like a clothes chest, one who touches it anywhere is rendered unclean. If the coffin was made like a case, one who touches it anywhere remains clean except for the place where it opens.

Ohalos 9:16

If a jar is resting on its base in the open air and an olive-sized piece of a corpse is placed beneath it or inside it directly opposite the base, the impurity extends upwards and downwards and the jar is rendered unclean. If the impurity is outside the jar under its wall, the uncleanliness extends upwards and downwards but the jar remains clean. If the impurity is inside the jar and under its wall, then if there’s a handbreadth opening in the walls, everything is rendered unclean but what’s opposite the mouth remains clean. If there isn’t such a space, the impurity extends upwards and downwards. All this only applies when the jar is ritually pure; if it was impure, or if it was one handbreadth off the ground, covered, inverted onto its mouth, or if there’s impurity beneath, inside it or above it, then everything is rendered unclean.