Commentary for Bava Batra 253:5

לימא תיהוי תיובתא דרב שיזבי

An objection was raised: [It was taught]. 'If a woman miscarried a <i>tumtum</i><span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. p. 526, n. 10. ');">¹⁵</span> or an<i> androginos</i>,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [H] [G] Hermaphrodite. ');">¹⁶</span> she must continue [in her levitical uncleanness and cleanness, as] for both a male and a female'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' She must observe fourteen unclean clays as for a female (Lev. XII. 5), and not seven only as for a male (ibid. v. 2); while her period of cleanness is not sixty-six days, as for a female (ibid. v. 5)' but only thirty-three as for a male (ibid. v. 4) Prom these thirty-three days, however, the additional seven days (the difference between the unclean periods if male and female respectively) are to be deducted, so that her period if cleanness consists of twenty-six days only. ');">¹⁷</span> [Is not this] an objection [to the statement] of R. Sherabya?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Who said that the mother was not unclean at all. ');">¹⁸</span>

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