ו ואמאי קרו ליה מרא דארעא דישראל דההיא אתתא דאייתא דמא לקמיה דרבי אלעזר הוה יתיב רבי אמי קמיה ארחיה אמר לה האי דם חימוד הוא בתר דנפקה אטפל לה רבי אמי אמרה ליה בעלי היה בדרך וחמדתיו קרי עליה (תהלים כה, יד) סוד ה' ליראיו
6 'Come and see', she remarked to her<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' So Emden, Cur. edd. 'his'. ');"><sup>11</sup></span> son, 'how wise the Jews are'. 'It is quite possible', he replied, 'that he<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Raba. ');"><sup>12</sup></span> hit upon it like a blind man on a window'. Thereupon she sent to him<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Raba. ');"><sup>12</sup></span> sixty different kinds of blood and he identified them all but the last one which was lice blood with which he was not acquainted. Luckily,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'the matter came to assistance'. ');"><sup>13</sup></span> however, he sent her<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As a gift. ');"><sup>14</sup></span> a comb that exterminates lice. 'O, you Jews', she exclaimed, you seem to live in the inner chamber of one's heart'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Nothing is hidden from them. ');"><sup>15</sup></span> Rab Judah stated: 'At first I used to examine blood, but since the mother of my son Isaac told me, "We do not bring the first drop to the Rabbis because it is dirty", I refuse to see it.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Because the colour changes and though the second drop may be one of clean blood it could not establish a woman's cleanness if the first drop, which she did not present for examination, was one of unclean blood. ');"><sup>16</sup></span> [An examination, however, for the purpose of distinguishing] between the blood of uncleanness and cleanness<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' At the end of the period of cleanness after a childbirth which is the fortieth day for a male and the eightieth for a female (cf. Lev. XII, 1-5). ');"><sup>17</sup></span> I certainly do perform'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The blood in such circumstances being free from dirt a woman submits for examination the first drop she sees. ');"><sup>18</sup></span>