Mesorat%20hashas for Niddah 145:42

<br><br><big><strong>הדרן עלך תינוקת וסליקא לה מסכת נדה</strong></big><br><br>

As it might have been presumed that she should count seven days after a discharge has appeared on two days only, this being arrived at by the following argument, 'If the man who does not count one day to correspond to one day<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' After one discharge on one day he performs immersion in the evening and resumes his cleanness. ');">³⁴</span> counts seven days after a discharge on two days, how much more reason is there that she who does count one day to correspond to one day<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sc. if she experienced a discharge on one day she must allow one clean day to pass before she may be regarded as clean. ');">³²</span> should count seven days after a discharge on two days', it was explicitly stated, She shall be,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'shall be to her', Lev. XV, 25. ');">³³</span> implying that she counts one day only. It is thus evident,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The argument begun on 72b ad fin. is now resumed and concluded. ');">³⁵</span> is it not, that these<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The laws regarding the intervals between the menstruation periods, viz., that each interval extends over eleven days; that a discharge on three consecutive days of these eleven subjects the woman to the restrictions of a major zabah; that after a discharge on only one or two of these days no more than one clean day need be allowed to pass; that after the eleven days' period the menstruation period begins, and that a discharge on the first of these causes the woman to be unclean on that day and on the following six days. ');">³⁶</span> are derived from Scriptural texts?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' How then could it be stated supra that these laws were halachahs? ');">³⁷</span> — According to R. Akiba they are derived from Scriptural texts, but according to R. Eleazar b. 'Azariah they are traditional halachahs. Said R. Shemaiah<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Var. lec., Isaiah (Yalkut). ');">³⁸</span> to R. Abba:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Var. lec., Raba (MS.M.). ');">³⁹</span> Might it be suggested that on account of a discharge in the day time<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since the text from which the laws of zibah are derived (Lev. XV, 25) speaks of days. ');">⁴⁰</span> a woman is a zabah, and that on account of one in the night<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' When (cf. prev. n.) she cannot be regarded a zabah. ');">⁴¹</span> she is a menstruant? — For your sake,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sc. in order to avert the possibility of his deduction. ');">⁴²</span> the other replied, Scripture stated, By<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' 'Al, E.V. 'beyond'. ');">⁴³</span> the time of her menstruation,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XV, 25. E.V. 'her impurity'. ');">⁴⁴</span> implying<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' By the use of 'al ('by'). ');">⁴⁵</span> a discharge close to the time of her menstruation. Now which is a discharge that is close to the time of her menstruation? One that occurred in the night;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since the menstruation period comes to an end at the sunset of the seventh day. ');">⁴⁶</span> and yet Scripture called her a zabah.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The verb rendered by 'have an issue' (Lev. XV, 25) being derived from the same root as zabah. ');">⁴⁷</span> The Tanna debe Eliyahu<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A treatise bearing this name is mentioned in Keth., (Sonc. ed.,) p. 680, n. 2 ');">⁴⁸</span> [teaches]: Whoever repeats<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Or 'learns'. ');">⁴⁹</span> <i>halachahs</i> every day may rest assured that he will be a denizen of the world to come, for it is said, Halikoth — <i>the world is his</i>;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hab. III, 6. E.V. 'his goings are of old'. ');">⁵⁰</span> read not <i>halikoth</i><span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' 'Goings out'. ');">⁵¹</span> but <i>halakoth</i>.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Or 'halachahs' (the Mishnah, Baraitha, and the oral laws that were handed down through Moses from Sinai). If a man studies these 'halachahs, the world (to come) is his'. ');">⁵²</span>

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