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Our calendering in Babylonia, which includes passing an abrasive stone over the garments to scrape off dirt, is like their laundering in Eretz Israel, and only in that manner do the garments in Babylonia reach that level of cleanliness. And if you say: Let us perform the process of calendering on cl
The Talmud relates: A certain man who came before Rabban Gamliel bar R' Yehuda HaNasi said to him: My teacher, I had sex and did not find blood. The bride said to him: My teacher, I am still a virgin. Rabban Gamliel bar R' Yehuda HaNasi said to them: Bring me two female slaves, one a virgin and on
The Talmud asks: Since Rabban Gamliel was familiar with this method of examination, let him use it to examine her initially. Why was the trial with the female slaves necessary? The Talmud answers: He learned that it was effective through tradition; however, he had never seen it in action, and he t
The Talmud relates: A certain man who came before Rabban Gamliel the Elder said to him: My teacher, I had sex and did not find blood. The bride said to him: My teacher, I am from the family of Dorketi, who have neither menstrual blood nor blood from the rupture of the hymen. Rabban Gamliel investig
The Talmud elaborates: What is the meaning of Dorketi? It means truncated generation [dor katua]. R' Ḥanina said: Rabban Gamliel consoled that man with vain words of consolation, because the absence of blood in this woman is a drawback. As R' Ḥiyya taught: Just as leaven is fortuitous for dough, s