Mesorat%20hashas for Niddah 3:16

והלל כי אמר העמד דבר על חזקתו היכא דלית ליה ריעותא מגופיה אבל איתתא

ALTHOUGH THEY<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The Sages. ');">¹⁴</span> HAVE LAID DOWN THAT SHE<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A woman who had no settled period. ');">¹⁵</span> CONVEYS UNCLEANNESS FOR A PERIOD OF TWENTY-FOUR HOURS [RETROSPECTIVELY]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' From the time she observed the flow. ');">¹⁶</span> SHE COUNTS [THE SEVEN DAYS OF HER MENSTRUATION]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Prescribed in Lev. XV, 19. ');">¹⁷</span> ONLY FROM THE TIME SHE OBSERVED THE FLOW. <b><i>GEMARA</i></b>. What is Shammai's reason?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For his ruling in the first clause of our Mishnah. ');">¹⁸</span> — He is of the opinion that a woman<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' About whom it is uncertain when her flow began. ');">¹⁹</span> should be presumed to enjoy<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'cause to stand&nbsp;… upon'. ');">²⁰</span> her usual status, and the status of the woman<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Spoken of in our Mishnah. ');">²¹</span> was one of cleanness.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since she was occupied with ritually clean things. ');">²²</span> And Hillel?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' How, in view of Shammai's reason, can he maintain his ruling. ');">²³</span> — When is it said that an object is presumed to possess its usual status? Only when the unfavourable condition<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which might impair its status. ');">²⁴</span> is not internal;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' But is due to some external cause. MS.M. adds, 'as, for instance, when it is doubtful whether one did, or did not touch (an unclean object)'. ');">²⁵</span> but as regards a woman,

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