Uktzin 1:5-6

Uktzin 1:5

Handles of foods that were threshed on a threshing-floor are ritually clean, though Rabbi Yosi rules them unclean (i.e., susceptible to impurity). A sprig of a cluster without any grapes is clean, but if even one grape remains on it, it is unclean. A palm sprig without any dates is clean, but if even one date remains, it is unclean. The same is true when it comes to legumes: if a pod has no seeds, it’s clean, but if even one seed remains, it’s unclean. Rabbi Elazar ben Azarya rules bean pods clean but other legume pods unclean since people intend to use them.

Uktzin 1:6

The stems of figs, dried figs, sweet figs and carobs are rendered unclean and convey impurity, and they combine; Rabbi Yosi adds gourd stalks. The stems of pears, wild pears, apples and crab-apples; the stalks of gourds and of artichokes up to a handbreadth (about 3”) – Rabbi Elazar bar Tzadok says two handbreadths (about 6”) – these are rendered unclean and convey impurity but don’t combine. Other stalks are neither rendered unclean nor do they convey impurity.