Commentary for Pesachim 161:7

ממה נפשך אי קסבר למפרע הוא מטמא אפילו כולהו נסתור אי קסבר מכאן ולהבא הוא מטמא יומו נמי לא נסתור אלא אימא לא יסתור ולא יומו

similarly, a woman who watches from day to day on whose second day they slaughtered and sprinkled on her behalf, and then she discharged again, - these defile their couch or their seat retrospectively,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Anything upon which they sit or lie, even without actually touching it, becomes unclean, its degree of defilement being that of a 'principal uncleanness' which in turn defiles people or utensils (v. Mishnah supra ');">⁷</span> and they are exempt from observing the second Passover.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Thus they are not unclean only for the future, and yet they are exempt from a second Passover; the reason must be because it is an 'uncleanness of the deep' of gonorrhoea, and he holds that the headplate propitiates.');">⁸</span>

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