If an infant is fed formula milk during the two years of breastfeeding, is he considered weaned, and does that change the ruling on his impurity?
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Urine of an infant within the first two years, even if nursed with milk other than his mother's, is sufficient to be purified by sprinkling and dabbing, because it is considered to be nourished by mother's milk, not by food.
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