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A woman who observes a clean day for one day or two days that she experiences a discharge will prove that this is not the case. This refers to a woman who experienced one or two days of bleeding not during her menstrual period and is required to wait one day without any further discharge of blood be
And you too should not then be surprised that this zav, although he renders a surface designated for lying and a surface designated for sitting ritually impure, he does not require a count of 7 clean days to become purified. Therefore, the verse states: “From his emission, then he shall count,” mea
Rav Pappa said to Abaye: What is different about this verse that states: “From his emission,” which is interpreted to include a zav who experienced two emissions in the obligation to count 7 clean days; and what is different about that verse that states: “From his emission,” which is interpreted to
Abaye said to him: If it enters your mind to say that this instance of the term: “From his emission,” comes to exclude a zav who experienced two emissions from the obligation to count 7 clean days, let the verse remain silent and omit the term, as there would have been no basis to include a zav who
And if you would say that this term: From his emission, is needed to derive a different inclusion, i.e., that he counts 7 days when he is clean from his emission and not from his tzara'at and therefore it was necessary to write this term, that is not so. As if it were so, then let the verse write: