Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Responsa for Niddah 31:17

ושמואל אמר

It was stated: If a woman had a settled period, and when the time of that period arrived she did not make the examination and later she did make one, Rab ruled: If on examination she found that she was unclean she is unclean but if she found that she was clean she remains clean. Samuel, however, ruled, Even if on examination she found herself clean she is deemed unclean, since the guest<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Euphemism, sc. the regular menstrual discharge. ');"><sup>16</sup></span>

Teshuvot Maharam

The blood stains on the shirt and sheets of a leprous woman do not render her impure. For these stains came from her leprous skin rather than from her womb. A stain on her shirt does not render her impure even during her "period", if she examined herself.
SOURCES: L. 185; Tashbetz 481; Orhot Hayyim II, p. 126.
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