Study Niddah folio 30A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
The Talmud asks: Now consider, how many days of purity are there, in the case of a woman who gave birth to a female? There are 66 days. Therefore, in order to account for all of the nights that might occur immediately after the woman’s period of purity, she must immerse on 66 nights, according to B
Rav Yirmeya of Difti says: The baraita is referring to a case where the woman came before us, i.e., she returned from her journey, during twilight, when it is halakhically uncertain whether it is day or night. The ruling is that in this case we give her another immersion, i.e., she is obligated
The Talmud asks: And according to Beit Hillel, who say that a woman who immersed that long day, i.e., a woman observing her period of purity after childbirth, does not require immersion once her period of purity is over, those 35 immersions that they require, what is their purpose?
The Talmud answers: 28 immersions are required as we said above, i.e., due to the end of the period of impurity in case the woman gave birth to a male or to a female, and due to the completion of the woman’s 7 clean days in case she gave birth as a zava. In addition, during this fifth week we requir
The Talmud raises a further difficulty: Why do I need the baraita to state that after the woman did not experience any bleeding for the first 3 weeks after arriving, she alternated for 10 weeks between experiencing bleeding every day for a week and not experiencing any bleeding for a week. How does