Commentary for Menachot 128:5

מעשה שבא [העומר] מגגות צריפין: תנו רבנן כשצרו מלכי בית חשמונאי זה על זה והיה הורקנוס מבחוץ ואריסטובלוס מבפנים בכל יום ויום היו משלשלין להן דינרין בקופה ומעלין להן תמידין

Once three women brought three pairs of doves to the Temple. One said, 'It is for my zibah'; the other said, 'It is for my yammah'; and the third said, 'It is for my 'onah'. Now they [the priests] thought that by zibah [the woman] actually meant her flux, by yammah her stream, and by 'onah her period, and therefore of each pair of doves, one bird was to be offered for a sin-offering and the other for a burnt-offering. Then spake Mordecai, 'Perhaps the one had been in danger by reason of her flux, the other had been in danger by reason of a sea journey, and the third had been in danger by an infection of the eye, and therefore all the doves were to be offered for burnt-offerings!' Thereupon they enquired into the matter and found that it was so.

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