Jacob Milgrom has argued that there's a kind of Archimedean principle at work here: every sin creates an impurity that encroaches upon the realm of holiness and displaces a certain amount of holiness.

雅各布·米尔格罗姆认为,这里存在着一种阿基米德原理：,每一种罪孽都会造成不洁,这种不洁逐渐蚕食神圣,慢慢取代神圣的位置。

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It's contagious, that is, it's transferred to other persons or objects, depending on how receptive they are--perhaps by physical touch, perhaps in the case of severe impurity by sharing an enclosed space, by being together under an overhanging roof, tent.

它会传染给另一个人，另一个物体，这取决于它们的接受度，也许是通过肢体接触，也许是因为呆在一个与世隔绝的空间里，同在一个屋檐下。

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