טו אלא ללוי דאמר שני מעינות הם תבדוק דילמא אכתי לא פסק ההוא מעין טמא אמר לך לוי הא מני
15 OR WHEN SHE IS A VIRGIN<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Newly married ');"><sup>36</sup></span> WHOSE BLOOD IS CLEAN.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' During the first four nights (cf. supra n. 9). ');"><sup>37</sup></span> AND TWICE [DAILY] MUST SHE<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' WHO HAS A FIXED PERIOD. ');"><sup>34</sup></span> EXAMINE HERSELF: IN THE MORNING<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To make sure that the objects she handled during the previous night are clean. ');"><sup>38</sup></span> AND AT THE [EVENING] TWILIGHT,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. prev. n. mut. mut. ');"><sup>39</sup></span> AND ALSO WHEN SHE IS ABOUT<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'passes'. ');"><sup>40</sup></span> TO PERFORM HER MARITAL DUTY.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'to serve her house'. ');"><sup>41</sup></span> PRIESTLY WOMEN ARE SUBJECT TO AN ADDITIONAL RESTRICTION [IN HAVING TO MAKE EXAMINATION] WHEN THEY ARE ABOUT TO EAT <i>TERUMAH</i>. R. JUDAH RULED: [THESE MUST EXAMINE THEMSELVES] ALSO AFTER THEY HAVE CONCLUDED A MEAL<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'at the time of their passing away from eating'. ');"><sup>42</sup></span> OF <i>TERUMAH</i>. <b><i>GEMARA</i></b>. EXCEPT WHEN SHE IS A MENSTRUANT, because during the days of her menstruation she needs no examination.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. relevant n. on our Mishnah. ');"><sup>43</sup></span> This<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That no examination is necessary. ');"><sup>44</sup></span> is quite satisfactory according to R. Simeon b. Lakish who ruled, 'A woman may establish for herself a settled period during the days of her <i>zibah</i><span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., during the eleven days between the periods of menstruation. If, for instance, she suffered a menstrual flow on the first day of two consecutive months and also on the fifteenth day (which is one of the eleven days of zibah) of the same months, while on the first of the third month she had no menstrual flow and on the fifteenth of that month she again observed a flow she (on account of the three observations on the fifteenth) establishes for herself a settled period on the fifteenth of the subsequent months though the first two observations had taken place during the eleven days of zibah. ');"><sup>45</sup></span> but not during the days of her menstruation',<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If, for instance, she suffered a flow on the first and on the fifth day of one month and again on the fifth of the two subsequent months no settled period is thereby established for the fifth of the month, because during menstruation, a woman normally bleeds and a recurrent discharge proves no settled habit. ');"><sup>46</sup></span> [since the discarding of an examination would be] well justified.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'beautiful', 'right'. Such an examination could serve no useful purpose whatsoever. It cannot serve the purpose of ascertaining whether she is clean (since she is in any case unclean even in the absence of a discharge) and it cannot serve the purpose of enabling her to establish a settled period (since no settled period can be established during the seven days of menstruation). ');"><sup>47</sup></span> According to R. Johanan, however, who ruled, 'A woman may establish for herself a settled period during the days of her menstruation', why should she not examine herself seeing that it is possible that she had established for herself a settled period?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. prev. n. but one mut. mut. ');"><sup>48</sup></span> — R. Johanan can answer you: I only spoke of a case where the woman observed the flow issuing<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' On each of the three occasions. ');"><sup>49</sup></span> from a previously closed source,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If, e.g., the flow made its first appearance (cf. infra 39b) on the first day of three consecutive months as well on the twenty-fifth of the second month. In this case the first day of each subsequent month is regarded as the settled period, because the first two of the three discharges originated from a closed source (there having been no flow before) while the last (though it appeared after the menstruation had begun on the twenty-fifth of the previous months) is also regarded as originating from a closed source since the discharge on the twenty-fifth which originated from a closed source is deemed to be the commencement of the flow on the first of the following month that followed it. ');"><sup>50</sup></span> but I did not speak of one where she observed it issuing<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Even on one of the three occasions. ');"><sup>51</sup></span> from an already open source.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As is the case spoken of in our Mishnah where even the first observation would be made during menstruation where the source is already open. ');"><sup>52</sup></span> OR IS CONTINUING IN THE BLOOD OF PURIFICATION. It was assumed that the reference is to one who is only desirous of continuing in the blood of purification.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' But had not yet commenced then, i.e., a woman after childbirth who concluded the seven unclean days for a male or the fourteen unclean days for a female (cf. Lev. XII, 1-5). ');"><sup>53</sup></span> Now this<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The ruling that no examination is necessary on the seventh or fourteenth day (cf. prev. n.). ');"><sup>54</sup></span> is quite satisfactory according to Rab who holds that 'it<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The blood discharged within forty or eighty days respectively after childbirth (cf. Lev. XII, 1-5). ');"><sup>55</sup></span> all emanates from the same source which the Torah declared to be unclean [during a certain period]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. supra, n. 3. ');"><sup>56</sup></span> and clean [during another period]'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The thirty-three days after the seven for a male and the sixty-six days after the fourteen for a female (cf. Lev. XII, 4f). ');"><sup>57</sup></span> [since the discarding of an examination would be] well justified;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'beautiful', 'right'. Such an examination would be purposeless since after the seventh and the fourteenth day respectively the woman would in any case be clean irrespective of whether there was any discharge or not. ');"><sup>58</sup></span> but according to Levi who holds that 'it<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The blood discharged within forty or eighty days respectively after childbirth (cf. Lev. XII, 1-5). ');"><sup>55</sup></span> emanates from two different sources'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The unclean source being open during the first seven and fourteen days respectively and after the forty and eighty days respectively when the clean one is closed, while the latter is open during the thirty-three and sixty-six days respectively when the former is closed. ');"><sup>59</sup></span> why should she not examine herself, seeing that it is possible<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Where there was a continuous issue from the unclean period into the clean one (cf. infra 35b). ');"><sup>60</sup></span> that the unclean source had not yet ceased to flow?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Unless there was an examination and it had been ascertained that there was a definite break in the flow at the end of the seven and the fourteen days respectively the woman might still be unclean even though the unclean period prescribed had passed. Why then should no examination be necessary? ');"><sup>61</sup></span> — Levi can answer you: This<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The ruling that the menstruant needs no examination. ');"><sup>62</sup></span> is in agreement with<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'whose'. ');"><sup>63</sup></span>