Commentary for Niddah 65:50

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in the number of the seven days.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' While in the case of a zabah the law requires seven full days clear of any discharge whatsoever. ');">⁴⁰</span> Rami b. Hama demurred: Why indeed should she not count it,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As one of the seven clean days. ');">⁴¹</span> and why should not we also count it,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As one of the seven clean days. ');">⁴¹</span> seeing that we have an established rule that part of a day is regarded as the whole of it? — Raba retorted: If so,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That as regards the counting of the clean days after zibah a part of a day could be regarded as the whole of it. ');">⁴²</span> how could it be possible for an emission of semen to cause the counting<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Of any one of the seven days (cf. supra 22a). ');">⁴³</span> after a <i>zibah</i> to be void seeing that a part of the day is to be counted as the whole of it?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And a part of the day presumably remains after the emission. ');">⁴⁴</span> If one had observed the discharge in the middle of the day the law might indeed be so,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The remaining part of the day being counted as a full day and the counting of the seven days is in no way interrupted. ');">⁴⁵</span> but here we might be dealing with one who observed the discharge near sunset?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' So that no part of the day remained, ');">⁴⁶</span> — Could it then definitely be assumed that<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'and let him arise and say to him to'. ');">⁴⁷</span> the Scriptural text was written only [in regard to a discharge] near sunset? — Yes; you must indeed allow the text to be so explained, for it<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In view of the accepted rule that part of a day counts as the whole of it. ');">⁴⁸</span> forces this interpretation upon itself. Rami b. Hama enquired: If a woman<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Who had intercourse during her zibah. ');">⁴⁹</span> ejected some semen;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' While she was counting her clean days after her zibah had terminated. ');">⁵⁰</span> does she cause her counting<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Of the one day on which the ejection occurred. ');">⁵¹</span> after a <i>zibah</i> to be void? Is she regarded as one who observed an emission of semen and causes, therefore, the counting<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Of the one day on which the ejection occurred. ');">⁵¹</span> to be void

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