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To Gerry Yancey You are referring not to the laws of Kosher (permissibility to eat) but to the laws of ritual purity. A plant cannot become impure until detached from the ground and being moistened once with liquid. Even if it becomes impure, it remains permissible to eat. Washing alone does not make it impure, only susceptible to impurity, if something impure (e.g. a dead animal) touches it. One should certainly wash produce before eating.
Kosher plants
In listening to the Shabbos’ Parshah, Shemini and I have a question.
A plant growing in the garden is kosher as long as it is in the ground. Once it is removed it can NOT become wet again. I want to know if the “contaminates” from insecticides can be washed from the plant prior to it be consumed?
Great stuff
At 12:50 is the discussion of why a woman who gives birth to a boy is spiritually impure for 40 days but to a girl for 80 days. In addition to what is mentioned about a girl being able to have another child and that being the reason the days are double, the following could be suggested:
When a person passes away and the soul leaves the body, the absence of that holiness of that soul creates a spiritual impurity. When a baby is born, the soul of the baby leaves the body of the mother, creating a spiritual impurity. When a girl is born, because of her ability to reproduce, a greater amount of holiness leaves the body of the mother, causing a greater amount of spiritual impurity after the birth of a girl. That could be suggested as to why the days are double.