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with regard to whether to leave in abeyance, i.e., to treat as uncertain, blood the color of water in which a fenugreek plant is soaked, or the color of the liquid that drips from roast meat. According to the first tanna of the Mishnah there are 5 types of blood that are definitely impure, whereas
§ The Mishnah states: Blood that is green, Akavya ben Mahalalel deems it impure. The Talmud asks: But does Akavya ben Mahalalel not accept the exposition of R' Abbahu that the two verses: “Dameha” (Leviticus 12:7), and: “Dameha” (Leviticus 20:18), indicate that there are 4 types of blood here?
The Talmud answers: If you wish, say that Akavya ben Mahalalel does not accept this opinion of R' Abbahu, as he maintains that there are more than 4 types of blood in a woman. And if you wish, say instead that Akavya ben Mahalalel accepts R' Abbahu’s exposition, and the apparent contradiction can be
§ The Mishnah states with regard to blood that is green: And the Rabbis deem it pure. The Talmud asks: Isn’t this opinion of the Rabbis identical to the opinion of the first tanna? The Talmud answers: There is a practical difference between them with regard to whether to leave in abeyance blood th
§ The Mishnah states that R' Meir said: Even if the green blood does not transmit impurity due to the halakhot of a blood stain or the blood of a menstruating woman, it is blood in that it renders food susceptible to ritual impurity due to its status as one of the 7 liquids that render food suscept