Commentary for Bava Kamma 76:9

ר"מ אומר שור של ישראל שנגח שור של כותי פטור ושל כותי שנגח שור של ישראל בין תם בין מועד משלם נזק שלם

All kinds of stains [found on women's underwear] brought from Rekem<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A place mainly inhabited by heathens who are not subject to the laws of purity and menstruation. [Rekem is identified by Targum Onkelos Gen. XVI, 14, with Kadesh; by Josephus (Ant. IV, 7, 1), with Petra.] ');">¹⁴</span> are [levitically] clean.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As the underwear might naturally be supposed to have been worn by a heathen woman. ');">¹⁵</span>

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