ndered, because the (Sages) say,
"the water of purification, which has done its duty, causes no
uncleanness."

5. A clean man who took the axe of one legally unclean by the handle,(759)
and sprinkled it, even though there be so much water upon it as is
sufficient for sprinkling, is clean. "How much water is sufficient for
sprinkling?" "Sufficient that the tops of the stalks of hyssop be dipped
and sprinkled." R. Judah said, "we regard them as though the hyssop were
copper."

6. "He who sprinkled with unclean hyssop?" "If it be the size of an egg,
the water is disallowed, and the sprinkling is disallowed." "If it be not
the size of an egg?" "The water is allowed, but the sprinkling is
disallowed, and he who is sprinkled renders his companion unclean, and he
again his companion, even though there be 100."

7. He who was cleansed for purification, if his hands became unclean, his
body is unclean, and he renders his companion unclean, and he again his
companion, even though there be 100.

8. A jug for purification, which became unclean on the outside, becomes
unclean inside, and renders unclean the one next to it, and it again the
next one, even though they be 100. The bell and its clapper are reckoned
as one. The spindle for bulrushes is not to be sprinkled either on the
spindle or on the ring. But if it be sprinkled, it is sprinkled. If it be
a spindle for flax, its parts are all reckoned as one. The skin which
covers a couch which is joined to rings, is reckoned as one with it. The
canopy is neither reckoned for uncleanness or cleanness. All handles of
vessels which enter them are reckoned as one with them. Rabbi Jochanan,
the son of Nuri, said, "even if they be only attached."

9. The panniers of an ass, and the staff of the threshing-wagon, and the
pole of a bier, and the horn vessels of travellers, and a chain for keys,
and the stitch-hooks of washers, and a garment sewed with a mixture of
wool and linen, are reckoned as one for uncleanness, but not reckoned as
one for sprinkling.

10. "The cover of a kettle which is bound by a chain?" The school of
Shammai say, "it is reckoned as one for uncleanness, but not reckoned as
one for sprinkling." The school of Hillel say, "he sprinkled the kettle,
he sprinkled the cover; he sprinkled the cover, he did not sprinkle the
kettle." All are permitted to sprinkle, except a neuter and a woman, and a
child without understanding. A woman may help a man when he sprinkles, and