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And Shmuel explains the baraita according to his line of reasoning, in the following manner: If an animal fetus is born in the 4th month of pregnancy in the case of small livestock, or it is born in the 8th month of pregnancy in the case of large livestock, or if it was born from this stage of the
A tanna taught a baraita before Rav: In the case of a woman who discharges an entity that has a shapeless body, i.e., it does not have the outline of limbs, or an entity that has a shapeless head, one might have thought that its mother should be impure with the impurity of a woman after childbirt
Those verses teach that the impurity of a woman after childbirth applies only to one who gave birth to a child that is fit for circumcision on the 8th day, excluding these cases, where the child is not fit for circumcision on the 8th day, as it cannot survive that long. Consequently, this woman does
R' Yirmeya bar Abba thought to perform an action, i.e., to issue a ruling, in accordance with the opinion of Shmuel, that a woman who gives birth to a child with two backs and two spines is impure. Rav Huna said to him: What is your thinking? That as this matter is subject to a dispute, one shoul
§ Rava says: The rabbis said that a woman can give birth to a viable offspring after 9 months of pregnancy or after 7 months of pregnancy; but if a woman gives birth after 8 months of pregnancy, the child cannot survive and is stillborn. Similarly, a large domesticated animal gives birth to a viabl