Quoting%20commentary for Taanit 43:11
הא גופה קשיא אמרת נראתה בעיר משולחת לא שנא ביום ולא שנא בלילה והדר אמרת ביום משולחת בלילה אינה משולחת
Once there was amongst us a betrothed girl upon whom the Gentiles cast their eyes. I therefore took lees of [red] wine and put them in her skirt and I told them that she was unclean.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' She was menstruating. [As protection of the woman this was singularly effective, as among the Persians the laws of menstruation were of extreme rigour, v. Obermeyer p. 210, n. 1.]');"><sup>4</sup></span>
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