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it to an eye salve [bekilor], which the woman had previously handled. And likewise, R' Yehuda HaNasi attributed a stain to the sap of a sycamore tree the woman had touched. The Talmud explains the objection: What, is it not the case that R' Meir and R' Yehuda HaNasi attributed red bloodstains to th
The Talmud answers: No; R' Meir and R' Yehuda HaNasi attributed stains to an eye salve and the sap of a sycamore tree because those stains were like the other types of blood mentioned in the Mishnah.
The Talmud relates that Ameimar and Mar Zutra and Rav Ashi were sitting before a bloodletter, to receive treatment. The bloodletter removed blood in a bloodletter’s horn from Ameimar for his first treatment. Ameimar saw the blood and said to his colleagues: The red color that we learned about in th
§ The Mishnah teaches: What is the black color that is impure? It is blood as black as ḥeret. Rabba bar Rav Huna says: This ḥeret of which the rabbis spoke is ink. The Talmud notes that this opinion is also taught in a baraita: This black color is like ḥeret, and the black of which the rabbis spok
A dilemma was raised before the rabbis: To which type of ḥeret were the rabbis referring? Were they referring to moist or dry ḥeret? Come and hear a resolution from a practical ruling, as when black blood was brought before R' Ami he would break up pieces of dried ink and examine blood with it.