Tohoros 7:8-9

Tohoros 7:8

Let’s say that a kohein who was ritually clean had no plans to eat trumah. Rabbi Yehuda says that he remains clean since it’s customary for unclean people to keep away from him; the Sages rule him unclean. If his hands were clean and he had no plans to eat trumah, then even if he says he knows that his hands weren’t rendered unclean, they’re unclean because hands are always busy.

Tohoros 7:9

Let’s say that a woman went into her house to get some bread for a needy person and when she came out she found him standing next to some trumah loaves, or she went out and returned to find her (unlearned) friend raking the coals under a pot of trumah. In such a case, Rabbi Akiva rules the trumah unclean but the Sages rule it clean. Rabbi Eliezer ben Pila asked why Rabbi Akiva rules food in a covered pot unclean; he answers that women are curious and she is suspected of uncovering her neighbor’s pot to see what she’s cooking.