Mesorat%20hashas for Niddah 43:35

המפלת כמין קליפה כמין שערה כמין עפר כמין יבחושין אדומין תטיל למים

you can apply to it<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Semen, which causes uncleanness for one day only. ');">³²</span> only that which had been said about it,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sc. (cf. prev. n.) it cannot be expected to cause a recount of seven days when it never causes uncleanness for more than one day. ');">³³</span> hence it causes the counting of one day only to be void?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' How then could R. Huna maintain that zibah is the cause of the recount? ');">³⁴</span> — The other<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' R. Huna. ');">³⁵</span> replied: It is a decree of Scripture that an absolute <i>zibah</i> in which no semen is mixed causes the counting of all seven days to be void, but particles of <i>zibah</i> in which semen is mixed cause only the counting of one day<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The last, on which it was discovered. ');">³⁶</span> to be void. R. Jose son of R. Hanina enquired of R. Eleazar: What is the ruling in the case of dry blood?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sc. does it, or does it not convey uncleanness? ');">³⁷</span> Did the Divine Law say, Have an issue<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'will flow a flowing' (v. infra). ');">³⁸</span> of her blood<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XV, 25. ');">³⁹</span> to indicate that it must be actually flowing,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. prev. n. but one. ');">⁴⁰</span> hence it refers only to fluid blood but not to dry, or is it possible that the expression, 'have all issue of her blood'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XV, 25. ');">⁴¹</span> was used merely because blood usually flows, but the same law in fact applies to dry blood also? — The other replied: You have learnt it: The blood of a menstruant and the flesh of a corpse convey uncleanness when fresh or when dry.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Infra 54b. ');">⁴²</span> Said he [R. Jose] to him, 'Where the blood was first fresh and then it dried up, I have no question to ask; my question arises only where it was originally dry'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sc. the abortion was a piece of dry blood. ');">⁴³</span> 'This also', the other replied, 'you have learnt: IF A WOMAN ABORTED AN OBJECT THAT WAS LIKE A RIND, LIKE A HAIR, LIKE EARTH, LIKE RED FLIES, LET HER PUT IT IN WATER

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