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Perhaps you say in accordance with the opinion of R' Akiva, that the woman transmits impurity to the man with whom she had sex, just as she retroactively transmits impurity to any pure items she touched in the preceding 24-hour period? The rabbis of Usha said to R' Eliezer, son of R' Tzadok: We hav
R' Eliezer, son of R' Tzadok, said to them: This is how the rabbis of Yavne explained it: As long as the woman did not wait before examining herself after sex for a period of time equivalent to the time in which she may descend from the bed and rinse her face, this is considered within the period of
If she waited before examining herself after sex for a period of time equivalent to the time in which she may descend from the bed and rinse her face, this is considered: After time, i.e., after the time frame referred to in the Mishnah as: After time passed.
In this case, and likewise in a case when she waited for a twenty-four-hour period or from examination to examination, i.e., she examined herself before sex and was pure, and then examined herself within 24 hours after sex and was impure, the man with whom she had sex becomes impure until evening d
The Talmud explains the difficulty with Rav Ashi’s interpretation of the Mishnah according to this baraita: Granted, according to the opinion of Rav Ḥisda, who maintains that the period of: After time passed, during which if the woman found blood on her cloth the man with whom she had sex is render