Leviticus 15:3-5
In addition, the man experiencing the discharge will also become ritually defiled. This is how he will contract ritual defilement due to his discharge: either if his reproductive organ runs freely with his discharge or if his reproductive organ is plugged up by his discharge because the discharge is somewhat more viscous. The law pertaining to a man who has only one discharge will be given below.
If a man has two or more discrete discharges, his defilement is sufficient to render him ritually impure to the following degree:
- Any object intended for reclining upon, upon which the man with the discharge lies will thereby become defiled; and any object intended for sitting upon, upon which he sits will thereby become defiled.
This is the nature of the defilement that these objects acquire through contact with the man with the discharge:
It was mentioned previously that only food and drink contract ritual defilement indirectly; people and implements do not. The exception to this is when the medium of transmission is an object upon which a man suffering from a discharge has reclined or sat. Such objects transmit ritual defilement even to people and implements (including garments), as follows:
- Anyone who touches an object that the man with the discharge reclined upon, or reclines on such an object even without touching it (for example, by reclining upon any number of ritually undefiled blankets that are spread over a bed upon which the man with the discharge reclined), becomes ritually defiled. In addition, any garments that this person is touching or otherwise wearing while this ritual impurity is being transmitted to him also become ritually defiled. He must therefore immerse his garments and immerse himself in the water of a mikveh, after which he will remain ritually defiled until evening, at which time he and his garments will become rid of this defilement.
