Mikvaos 7:5-6

Mikvaos 7:5

Let’s say that a kortov of wine (i.e., 1/64 of a log) fell into three log of drawn water, changing its color to that of wine. If this water then fell into a mikvah, it doesn’t invalidate it (because the drawn water’s status was changed by the wine). Let’s say that there was one kortov less than three log of drawn water and a kortov of milk fell into it but the color remained the color of water. If that then fell into a mikvah, it doesn’t invalidate it (because there wasn’t three log of water). Rabbi Yochanan ben Nuri says that everything follows the color.

Mikvaos 7:6

If a mikvah contained exactly 40 seah and two people immersed in succession, the first is purfied but the second remains unclean (because there’s no longer 40 seah in the mikvah after the first person has used it). Rabbi Yehuda says that if the first’s person’s feet were still touching the water, then the second person is also purified. If a person immersed a thick cloak in the mikvah and when he pulled it out, part was still in touching the water, one who immerses is purified. If one immerses a leather pillow or cushion, the water that remains in it is rendered drawn water as soon as it’s taken out of the mikvah by its open side. One should therefore immerse these things and then remove them by their bottoms.