Negaim 6:7-8

Negaim 6:7

The human body has 24 limbs whose tips don’t become unclean because of healthy flesh: the tips of the fingers and toes, the tips of the ears, the tip of the nose, the tip of the penis, and a woman’s nipples; Rabbi Yehuda also includes a man’s nipples. Rabbi Eliezer says that warts and hanging shreds of skin are also not rendered unclean by healthy flesh.

Negaim 6:8

The following places on a person are not rendered unclean by a white spot: inside the eye, inside the ear, inside the nose and inside the mouth, wrinkles (of an overweight person), wrinkles in the neck (of any person), under the breast, the armpit, the sole of the foot, the nails, the head, the beard, and a boil, a burn and a blister that are still forming. All these are not rendered unclean because of a nega, they don’t combine with a nega, a nega doesn’t spread into them, they aren’t rendered unclean by healthy flesh, and they don’t count against one being considered to have turned completely white. If the head or beard developed a bald spot, or if a boil, a burn or a blister formed a scar, they can be rendered unclean by a nega but they don’t combine with another nega, a nega doesn’t spread into them and they aren’t rendered unclean by healthy flesh; they do stop one from being considered having turned completely white. The head and the beard before they grow hair and hanging shreds of skin on the head or beard are treated like regular skin.