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Jerusalem Talmud Niddah Chapter 4
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Niddah, chapter 4, holds 1 halakhot here. The passage opens “משנה: בְּנוֹת כּוּתִים נִידּוֹת מֵעֲרִיסָתָן. וְהַכּוּתִּים מְטַמְּאִין…” and runs about 65 words.
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The passage opens “משנה: בְּנוֹת כּוּתִים נִידּוֹת מֵעֲרִיסָתָן. וְהַכּוּתִּים מְטַמְּאִין…” and runs about 65 words.
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- Halakha 165 words
Opens “משנה: בְּנוֹת כּוּתִים נִידּוֹת מֵעֲרִיסָתָן. וְהַכּוּתִּים מְטַמְּאִין…”
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בְּנוֹת כּוּתִים נִידּוֹת מֵעֲרִיסָתָן. וְהַכּוּתִּים מְטַמְּאִין מִשְׁכָּב תַּחְתּוֹן כָּעֶלְיוֹן מִפְּנֵי שֶׁהֵן בּוֹעֲלֵי נִידּוֹת וְהֵן יוֹשְׁבוֹת עַל כָּל דָּם. וְאֵין חַיָיבִין עֲלֵיהֶן עַל בִּיאַת הַמִּקְדָּשׁ וְאֵין שׂוֹרְפִין עֲלֵיהֶן אֶת הַתְּרוּמָה מִפְּנֵי שֶׁטוּמְאָתָן בְּסָפֵק. בְּנוֹת כּוּתִים נִידּוֹת מֵעֲרִיסָתָן כול׳. דַּם נִידָּה זָהוּם דַּם בְּתוּלִים אֵינוֹ זָהוּם. דַּם נִידָּה אָדוֹם דַּם בְּתוּלִים אֵינוֹ אָדוֹם. דַּם נִידָּה מִן הַמָּקוֹר דַּם בְּתוּלִים אֵינוֹ מִן הַמָּקוֹר אֶלָּא מִן הַצַּד.
MISHNAH: The daughters of Samaritans are menstruating from their cribs The Samaritans, a Sadducee sect, apply the rules of menstruation only to girls from their puberty on. Therefore, a prepuberty Samaritan girl might be impure by Pharisaic standards. , and Samaritan men make impure bottoms like uppers) is impure in the impurity of a garment of the sufferer from gonorrhea (the upper ) . because they sleep with menstruating woman since they sit for every blood But in pharisaic theory, she could have a pure discharge on the first day and an impure on the second or third; then the seventh day of her count would be only the sixth or fifth for a pharisaic woman. Therefore, a Samaritan woman might tell her husband that she was pure when in pharisaic theory she was still impure. (A pharisaic woman only has the choice either of showing her blood to a rabbi or to start counting from the last day of her period.) The compliment was returned by the Sadducees who accused the Pharisees to “make the Temple impure because they do not separate themselves [from their wives] following the Torah and sleep with one who sees the blood of her discharge” (CD V:6). . But one is not guilty about them for entering the Temple and one does not burn heave because of them since their impurity is one of doubt. HALAKHAH: “The daughters of Samaritans are menstruating from their cribs,” etc. Menstrual blood is dirty, virginal blood is not dirty. Menstrual blood is red, virginal blood is not red. Menstrual blood is from the womb, virginal blood is not from the womb but from the side.