Today’s daf is debating if we can use an impure vessel to get pure water on the festival (doing so would purify the vessel holding the water, something we are not supposed to do on the holiday). And so, a different immersion is used to try and make an argument – and this is my gem:
Come and hear a different proof, as Rav Ḥiyya bar Ashi said that Rav said: A menstruating woman who has no ritually pure clothes to wear after she immerses herself in a ritual bath to purify herself, as all her clothes had become impure, and it is Shabbat or a Festival, when she is unable to immerse them, may employ an artifice to circumvent the prohibition and immerse herself in her clothes. She is permitted to purify herself, and when she immerses herself while wearing her garments, they become purified at the same time.
I love this. I was just walking outside in over 90 degree weather and am so sweaty and I want to jump in the pool with my clothes on – I can relate to this woman who wants to immerse in her clothes since they are all “impure” and she’s doing to go into the water anyway.
Is jumping in the pool with your clothes on something you should do regularly? No, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.
2,711 pages of Talmud. A gem a day. 