An earthenware container with heifer ashes has a tightly-sealed lid. A creeping creature carcass touches the container. Are the ashes impure?
Halacha 1 rules that if the earthenware container has an airtight seal of at least a handbreadth, the ashes inside are protected from impurity.
Question 2
What is the status of a stone container that holds heifer ashes touched by an impure creature?
Halacha 2 rules that a stone container is immune to impurity — the ashes remain pure regardless of what touches the stone vessel.
Question 3
A purified person lifts one receptacle of purification water with one hand. What is the ruling?
Halacha 5 rules that lifting one receptacle with one hand makes only that water impure — adjacent water not being lifted remains acceptable.
Question 4
If a person moves two receptacles of purification water simultaneously with his hands without touching them, what is the ruling?
Halacha 8 states that if he moved both simultaneously without touching them, the receptacles themselves become impure but the water contents remain pure.
Question 5
When there is doubt about whether purification water has become impure, how do we rule?
Halacha 9 establishes the general rule: in all doubtful impurity situations in this purification process, we rule strictly and treat the water as impure.