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it is uncertain whether that woman has the status of one who gave birth, and it is uncertain whether she has the status of a woman who experiences an irregular discharge of blood from the uterus [ziva]. Therefore, she brings an offering, like any woman after childbirth or after ziva, but the offe
R' Yehoshua says: The woman brings an offering, and it is eaten. The reason is that she is certainly either a woman after childbirth or a zava, as opening of the womb is not possible without a discharge of blood. The tanna’im in the baraita disagree about whether opening of the womb is possible w
§ Some say another version of the above discussion. Rav Yehuda says that Shmuel says: R' Yehuda deemed the woman impure, despite the fact that no blood emerged, only in the case of a piece of tissue that has the appearance of one of the 4 types of ritually impure blood, but if it has the appearance
The Talmud asks: Is that so? But when Rav Hoshaya came from Neharde’a, he came and brought a baraita with him that states: In the case of a woman who discharges a piece of tissue that is red, or black, green, or white, if there is blood that emerges with it, the woman is impure, and if not, she is
The Talmud concludes its challenge: The baraita teaches both a case where the piece of tissue is red or black, and a case where it is not one of the 4 types of impure blood but it is green or white, i.e., in all of these cases the Rabbis hold that the woman is pure, and yet R' Yehuda disagrees wit