When keilim are entrusted to an unlearned artisan for repair, what impurity do they contract?
Halacha 1 states: 'When a person entrusts keilim to an unlearned person or gives a k'li to an unlearned artisan to fix, they are considered to be impure because of the impurity associated with a human corpse.'
Question 2
If a chaver tells an am ha'aretz to 'watch these keilim' — without further instructions — what impurity do they contract?
Halacha 1 distinguishes: 'When a person places his keilim down before an unlearned person and tells him: Watch these for me, they are considered to have contracted midras impurity, but not the impurity associated with a human corpse.'
Question 3
If tax collectors enter a house to take security and are accompanied by a gentile, are their statements about impurity accepted?
Halacha 11 rules: 'If they are accompanied by a gentile, their word is accepted if they say they did not touch anything' — because they fear being caught lying in front of the gentile.
Question 4
If an unlearned person's wife enters a chaver's home only to retrieve the chaver's child or animal, what is the status of the house's contents?
Halacha 22 rules: 'Everything in the house is pure, because she entered for a specific purpose' and not to interact with utensils.
Question 5
A chaver leaves his house open and returns to find it open, with nothing stolen. What is the status of the house?
Halacha 14 states: 'When a person leaves his house open and finds it open... and nothing was stolen from it, everything in the house is pure. We assume that no one entered.'