Commentary for Niddah 142:43

מטמאין משכב ומושב וחייבין בקרבן

is not treated like the dough-offering.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A tebul yom (as one subject to the second grade of uncleanness) cannot, therefore, impart any uncleanness to it. ');">³⁹</span> BRING IT NEAR. Because a Master stated: It is a religious duty to set aside the offering from dough that is in close proximity to that for which it is set aside. AND DESIGNATE IT AS SUCH. Since it might have been presumed that this should be forbidden as a preventive measure against the possibility of her touching the dough<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'it', after it had been designated as dough offering. ');">⁴⁰</span> from the outside,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sc. she might put her hand across the sides of the vessel in which the dough-offering is kept, and so impart uncleanness to the offering. ');">⁴¹</span> we were informed [that this is permitted]. AND IF ANY OF HER SPITTLE&nbsp;… FELL. For we have learnt: The liquid [issues] of a tebul yom<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' 'The liquids that issue from him' is added in cur. edd., in parenthesis. ');">⁴²</span> are like the liquids that he touches, neither of them conveying uncleanness. The exception is the liquid issue of a <i>zab</i><span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The passage from here to the end of the sentence is deleted by Elijah Wilna. ');">⁴³</span> which is a father of uncleanness. BETH SHAMMAI. What is the point at issue between them?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Beth Shammai and Beth Hillel. ');">⁴⁴</span> — R. Kattina replied: The point at issue between them is the necessity for immersion<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If earlier in that day immersion had already been performed. ');">⁴⁵</span> at the end of a long day.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That terminated a period of uncleanness. The forty as well as the eighty days (cf. supra p. 496, n. 1) are regarded as one long day in the course of which (on the seventh and the fourteenth day respectively) immersion had already been performed. ');">⁴⁶</span> <b><i>MISHNAH</i></b>. IF A WOMAN OBSERVED A DISCHARGE ON THE ELEVENTH DAY<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sc. the last day of a zibah period which is followed by the first day of the next menstruation period. ');">⁴⁷</span> AND PERFORMED IMMERSION IN THE EVENING AND THEN HAD MARITAL INTERCOURSE, BETH SHAMMAI RULED: THEY<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The woman and her husband. ');">⁴⁸</span> CONVEY UNCLEANNESS<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As a woman under the obligation of allowing a clean day to pass after a day of uncleanness and as the man who had intercourse with such a woman respectively. ');">⁴⁹</span> TO COUCH AND SEAT<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., to any object on which they lie or sit, which in turn conveys uncleanness to foodstuffs and drinks. ');">⁵⁰</span> AND THEY ARE LIABLE TO A SACRIFICE,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Prescribed for a woman and a man who had intercourse in such circumstances (cf. prev. n. but one). ');">⁵¹</span>

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