Niddah 130
העקלים של נצרים ושל בצבוץ מנגבן של שיפא ושל גמי מיישנן
and as for the wickerwork, if it is made of willows and hemp it must be scoured, and if of bast or reeds it must remain unused;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'causes them to be old'. ');"><sup>1</sup></span>
וכמה מיישנן
and for how long must they remain unused? For twelve months. R. Simeon b. Gamaliel ruled: One must leave them from one period of wine-pressing to another<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Presumably twelve months. ');"><sup>2</sup></span>
איכא בינייהו חרפי ואפלי
— The practical difference between them arises in the case of early or late ripening fruit.)<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Where the period intervening between the pressing seasons of two succeeding years is sometimes less, and sometimes more than twelve months. ');"><sup>5</sup></span>
רבי יוסי אומר הרוצה לטהר מיד מגעילן ברותחין או חולטן במי זיתים
R. Jose stated: If a person desires to obtain cleanness forthwith he pours over them boiling water or scalds them with olive water. R. Simeon b. Gamaliel citing R. Jose ruled: He puts them under a pipe through which runs a continuous stream of water or in a fountain with flowing water. And for how long? For one 'onah. (As these provisions were applied to yen nesek so were they applied to matters of cleanness. But is not the order<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That compares the laws of cleanness to those of yen nesek v. Glos. ');"><sup>6</sup></span>
רשב"ג אומר משום ר' יוסי
reversed, seeing that we are here dealing with the laws of cleanness? — Rather say: As these provisions were applied to matters of cleanness so were they applied to yen nesek.) And how long is an 'onah? R. Hiyya b. Abba citing R. Johanan replied: Either a day or a night. R. Hana She'una or, as some say, R. Hana b. She'una citing Rabbah b. Bar Hana who had it from R. Johanan replied: Half a day and half a night. And in connection with this R. Samuel b. R. Isaac explained: There is no real difference between them,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' R. Hiyya and Rabbah b. Bar Hana. ');"><sup>7</sup></span>
מניחן תחת הצינור שמימיו מקלחין או במעיין שמימיו רודפין
the former referring to the spring and autumn equinoxes<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'in the cycle of Nisan and of Tishri'. When the days and the nights are equal an onah of twelve hours is either a day or a night. ');"><sup>8</sup></span>
וכמה
and the latter to the summer and winter solstices?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'in the cycle of Tammuz and Tebeth'. Since the days and the nights are unequal an 'onah of twelve hours is half a day and half a night. Now in view of this definition and explanation, how could R. Simeon b. Gamaliel maintain (supra 65a ad fin.) that an 'onah is 'a night and half a day'? ');"><sup>9</sup></span>
כדרך שאמרו ביין נסך כך אמרו בטהרות
read: Half a day and half a night. But did he not say 'a night and half a day'? — Rather say: Either 'a night' in the spring or autumn equinox or 'half a day and half a night' in the winter or summer solstice. And if you prefer I might reply: The case involving a <i>kethubah</i><span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. prev. n. mut. mut. ');"><sup>11</sup></span>
וכמה עונה
one performs the obligatory marital act and withdraws forthwith. R. Hisda raised an objection: It once happened that Rabbi allowed a woman intercourse on four nights in twelve months!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Supra 64b, ad fin.; q.v. notes. ');"><sup>16</sup></span>
ר' חנה שאונא ואמרי לה רבי חנה בר שאונא אמר רבה בר בר חנה א"ר יוחנן
for repeating the same objection? Rather raise one from our Mishnah?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which also allows more than one marital act. ');"><sup>19</sup></span>
אלא
'Ulla stated: When R. Johanan and Resh Lakish were engaged in the discussions of the chapter on the 'Young Girl'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sc. the present (the tenth) chapter of Niddah, which begins, IF A YOUNG GIRL. ');"><sup>25</sup></span>
אי לילה דניסן ותשרי אי חצי יום וחצי לילה דטבת ותמוז
they carried away from it only what a fox carries away from a ploughed field,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., nothing. They completely disregarded its rulings. ');"><sup>26</sup></span>
שאני כתובה
with this statement: One performs the obligatory marital act and withdraws forthwith. Said R. Abba to R. Ashi: Now then,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since one must withdraw immediately after the act, in order to avoid possible blood of menstruation. ');"><sup>28</sup></span>
מ"מ לרב ושמואל קשיא
and in the case of all these R. Meir imposes restrictions in agreement with the view of Beth Shammai.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Thus, a minor is allowed four nights and she must, therefore, examine herself if the bleeding continued beyond the fourth night while a na'arah who is allowed one night must examine herself if the bleeding continued after the first night. ');"><sup>37</sup></span>
אינהו דעבדו כרבותינו
In regard, however, to other observations of blood,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Where bleeding did not continue after the four nights in the case of the minor or after the first night in that of the na'arah. ');"><sup>38</sup></span>
דתניא רבותינו חזרו ונמנו
concerning which a difference of opinion exists between Beth Shammai<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Who hold the blood to be unclean irrespective of whether its colour did, or did not change. ');"><sup>39</sup></span>
כי הוו בה ר' יוחנן ור"ל בתינוקת לא הוו מסקי מינה אלא כדמסיק תעלא מבי כרבא ומסיימי בה הכי
by the colour of the blood; for R. Meir ruled: The colours of the various kinds of blood are different from one another. In what manner? Menstrual blood is red, the blood of virginity is not so red; menstrual blood is turbid, the blood of virginity is not turbid; menstrual blood issues from the source, the blood of virginity issues from the sides. R. Isaac son of R. Jose citing R. Johanan stated: This is the ruling of R. Meir alone, but the Sages maintain: All the colours of the various kinds of blood are the same.
א"ל ר' אבא לרב אשי
as a result of marital intercourse may perform her marital duty the first, second and third time. Henceforward,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If she observed a discharge three times as a result of intercourse. ');"><sup>43</sup></span>