Commentary for Pesachim 180:27

<big><strong>מתני׳</strong></big> האונן

Even on the view that one slaughters and sprinkles for a person unclean through a reptile [that is] because he is fit in the evening. But a niddah performs tebillah in the evening of [i.e., following] the seventh day: [hence] she is not fit for eating [the Passover offering] until the [evening after the] eighth, by when she has had the setting of the sun.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' She must not eat of sacrifices until the setting of the sun after her tebillah. Since she performs tebillah in the evening, when the sun has already set, she must wait until the following evening.');">³⁰</span> But say, 'on the eighth.' That is obvious: seeing that one slaughters and sprinkles for a zabah on the eighth day, though as yet she lacks atonement, need it be taught that one slaughters and sprinkles on behalf of a niddah, who does not lack atonement?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' She does not require a sacrifice.');">³¹</span> - He finds it necessary [to teach about] a niddah, [and] informs us this: only on the eighth, but not on the seventh, even as it was taught: All who are liable to tebillah.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' E.g., a zab and a zabah, a leper, and one defiled through a corpse (Shab. 121a) .');">³²</span> their tebillah takes place by day;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The seventh day from their defilement.');">³³</span> a niddah and a woman in confinement, their tebillah takes place at night.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The evening following the last day of their uncleanness. In this respect a niddah is more stringent than a zabah, who performs tebillah on the seventh day, and does not wait for the evening.');">³⁴</span> For it was taught: You might think that she [a niddah] performs tebillah by day;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sc. the seventh, like a zabah.');">³⁵</span> therefore it is stated, she shall be in her impurity seven days:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XV. 19.');">³⁶</span> let her be in her impurity full seven days.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' But if she performs tebillah on the seventh day itself, the period is diminished.');">³⁷</span> And a woman in confinement is assimilated to Juddah.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For it is written, as in the days of the impurity of (niddath, const. of niddah) her sickness shall she (sc. a woman in confinement) be unclean');">³⁸</span> <big><b>MISHNAH: </b></big>[As To] AN OMEN,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Glos. Here it refers to one who became an omen after midday, so that the obligation of the Passover-offering was already incumbent upon him. But if he became an omen before midday, this obligation does not fall on him at all, as stated infra ');">³⁹</span>

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