Sadducees and Pharisees on the Purity of Liquids
The Sadducees say: We complain against you, Pharisees, that you declare an uninterrupted flow of liquid to be clean.
The Pharisees say: We complain against you, Sadducees, that you declare a stream of water which flows from a burial ground to be clean.
Translated by Joshua Kulp.
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m. Yadayim 4:7, from Mishnah Yomit, trans. Joshua Kulp, www.sefaria.org. Originally from https://learn.conservativeyeshiva.org. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) License.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 2: Emerging Judaism.
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