Mesorat%20hashas for Bava Batra 331:7

מעשה ועמדו קינים בירושלים בדינרי זהב אמר רבן שמעון בן גמליאל המעון הזה אם אלין הלילה עד שיהו בדינרין נכנס לבית דין ולימד האשה שהיו עליה חמש לידות ודאות חמש זיבות ודאות מביאה קרבן אחד ואוכלת בזבחים ואין השאר עליה חובה

in Jerusalem had risen<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'stood'. ');">¹⁸</span> to gold <i>denarii</i>.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The price had risen owing to the large demand on the part of women who brought separate sacrifices for each confinement. ');">¹⁹</span> [Thereupon] R. Simeon b. Gamaliel exclaimed, '[By] this Temple!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' An oath. ');">²⁰</span> I shall not go to rest this night before these [can] be [obtained] for silver denarii'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Dinrin, implying silver denarii, while gold denarii were previously described (v. supra n. 13), as denari. Thus it has been shewn that a distinction was made between the two names, denari and dinrin. ');">²¹</span> He entered the <i>Beth din</i> and issued the following instruction:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'he taught'. ');">²²</span> 'A woman who had<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'there were upon her'. ');">²³</span> five certain [child] confinements, [or] five certain issues, brings one sacrifice and may [subsequently] eat of sacrificial meat, and there is no obligation upon her to bring the rest'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The other four sacrifices. ');">²⁴</span>

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