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If they dissolved, it is blood, and the woman is impure; and if not, she is ritually pure. Evidently, dry blood is impure, as these items are all dry until they are soaked in water. The Talmud asks: If so, that dry blood is impure, these items are impure also in a case where they do not dissolve
The Talmud asks with regard to these instances discussed in the Mishnah: But are there actually cases like this? The Talmud answers: Yes there are, and it is taught likewise in a baraita that R' Elazar, son of R' Tzadok, says: My father raised two incidents from Tivin to the rabbis in Yavne for dis
The first was an incident involving a woman who would repeatedly discharge items similar to red shells, and the local residents came and asked my father whether this rendered the woman impure. And my father asked the other rabbis, and the rabbis asked the doctors what causes this to happen. And the
And again there was a similar incident involving a woman who would discharge items similar to red hairs, and she came and asked my father whether she was impure. And my father asked the other rabbis, and the rabbis asked the doctors, and the doctors said to them: The woman has a mole in her womb fr
§ Reish Lakish says: And this examination is conducted only with lukewarm [uvefoshrin] water. This is also taught in a baraita: The woman should cast the item into water, and this examination is conducted only with lukewarm water. Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel says: The woman mashes the item with saliv