Commentary for Niddah 141:49

וחכמים מטהרין מפני

it is doubtful whether the greater part<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Of the quarter. ');">⁴³</span> issued while he was alive and the lesser part when he was dead or whether the lesser part issued while he was alive and the greater part when he was dead, such is mingled blood.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. p. 494, n. 6. ');">⁴⁴</span> R. Judah ruled: The blood of a slain man, from whom a quarter of a <i>log</i> of blood issued while he was lying in a bed with his blood dripping into a hole, is unclean, because the drop of death is mingled with it, but the Sages hold it to be clean<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Even if the greater part issued after his death. ');">⁴⁵</span> because<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since the blood did not emerge in a continuous flow but in single drops. ');">⁴⁶</span>

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