Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Commentary for Pesachim 161:1

בשני שלה ואחר כך ראתה אינה אוכלת ופטורה מלעשות פסח שני

on her second day, and then she saw [a discharge], may not eat [of the sacrifice] and is exempt from observing the second Passover.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' During the eleven days following the seven days of niddah (menstruation) which are called the eleven days between the menses, a woman cannot become a niddah again, it being axiomatic that a discharge of blood in that period is not a sign of niddah, but may be symptomatic of gonorrhoea (zibah) . A discharge on one or two days within the eleven renders her unclean for that day or those days only, but she cannot perform tebillah (v. Glos.) to become clean until the evening of the following day (for full details v. Nid. ');"><sup>1</sup></span> What is the reason?

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