Vayikra 14:46

46 Moreover he that goeth into the bais all the while that it is quarantined shall be tamei until erev.

Vayikra 14:46 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 14:46

Moreover, he that goeth into the house all the while it is
shut up
The utmost of which were three weeks, as Jarchi observes; during the time a house was shut up, no man might enter it: if he did, he shall be unclean until the evening;
might not have any conversation with men until the evening was come, and he had washed himself; nay, according to the Misnah ^F17, if a clean person thrust in his head, or the greatest part of his body, into an unclean house, he was defiled; and whoever entered into a leprous house, and his clothes are on his shoulder, and his sandals (on his feet), and his rings on his hands, he and they are unclean immediately; and if he has his clothes on, and his sandals on his feet, and his rings on his hands, he is immediately defiled, and they are clean.

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FOOTNOTES:

F17 Misn. Negaim, c. 12. sect. 8, 9.

Vayikra 14:46 In-Context

44 Then the kohen shall come and inspect, and, hinei, if the nega be spread in the bais, it is a malignant tzara’at in the bais; it is tamei.

45 And he shall tear down the bais, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the mortar of the bais; and he shall carry them forth out of the town into a makom tamei.

46 Moreover he that goeth into the bais all the while that it is quarantined shall be tamei until erev.

47 And he that reclineth in the bais shall wash his clothes; and he that eateth in the bais shall wash his clothes.

48 And if the kohen shall come in, and examine it, and, hinei, the nega hath not spread in the bais, after the bais was plastered, then the kohen shall pronounce the bais tahor (clean), because the nega is healed.