More Discussions for this daf
1. The Emission of a Zav 2. Rebbi Shimon's Derashah 3. Zav
4. Sefer Torah in Greek 5. Dinei Metzora 6. Tum'ah of Metzora
7. Mishnah or Beraisa?
DAF DISCUSSIONS - MEGILAH 8

Yosef Trak asks:

By the gemarah of a zav who sees 2 emissions, the gemarah says that zav who has 2 emissions is tameh and a zav who sees 3 emmisions is tameh and brings a korbon. The gemarah then asks maybe the pasuk was just teaching you that 2 emmisions is tameh with no korbon and 3 emmisions is korbon but not tameh.

My questions is is how can the gemarah have a hava aminah that either a zav who has 2 emissions or 3 emmisions isn't tameh, the whole thing of R' Sima'i is that "maneh hakasuv shtayim V'KARU TAMEH etc."- meaning the pasuk calls both a 2 emisions and a 3 emissions zav tameh?

Yosef Trak, Brooklyn, NY

The Kollel replies:

Rashi (DH v'Lo l'Tum'ah) answers your question when he writes that according to the Havah Amina of the Gemara that the Zav who has 3 emissions is not Tamei, this does not mean that he is not Tamei at all, but rather that he does not possess the severe Tum'ah of a Zav but only the lighter Tum'ah of a Ba'al Keri. It is obvious, however, as you point out, that the Zav with 3 emissions does possess some Tum'ah because the verse calls him "Tamei."

Kol Tuv,

Dovid Bloom