Quoting%20commentary for Niddah 17:68

ורבי שמעון אומר

— Even according to him who holds that no prescribed quantity is required the ruling refers only to the quantity applied to the body of the man but as regards that which is in the vessel a prescribed quantity is required; as we have learnt: What must be the quantity of water<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The water of sprinkling. ');">⁵⁹</span> that it shall suffice for a sprinkling? As much as suffices for both the dipping therein of the tops of the stalks and for the sprinkling.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Parah XII, 5. ');">⁶⁰</span> It is, in fact, in view of such laws<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which are apparently paradoxical: The man who sprinkles the water or is sprinkled upon is clean while he who merely touched it is unclean. ');">⁶¹</span> that Solomon observed, I said: 'I will get wisdom'; but it was far from me.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Eccl. VII, 23. ');">⁶²</span> WHO IS REGARDED 'AN OLD WOMAN'? ANY WOMAN OVER WHOM THREE ONAHS HAVE PASSED NEAR THE TIME OF HER OLD AGE. What is to be understood by NEAR THE TIME OF HER OLD AGE? — Rab Judah replied: The age when her women friends speak of her as an old woman; and R. Simeon<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' MS.M. adds 'b. Lakish'. ');">⁶³</span> replied:

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