Study Niddah folio 42A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
And if you would say that it is certainly possible that she released all the semen, but Rava’s concern was that perhaps some of it might have remained, if so, he should have said: We are concerned that perhaps some semen remained and will be discharged, rather than: It is impossible for her not to d
Rather, according to Rava too, this is referring even to a case where others immersed her while she was still in bed and she remained there for 3 days. And the contradiction is not difficult: Here, in the statement of Rava, he is referring to a woman who turns around in bed from side to side. It i
And the statement of Rava is referring to a verse in the Torah, and this is what he is saying: When God writes in the Torah, with regard to a man and woman who had sex: “They shall both bathe themselves in water, and be impure until the evening” (Leviticus 15:18), which indicates that when evening c
Rav Shmuel bar Bisna asked Abaye: With regard to a woman who discharges semen, is her status that of one who experienced an emission of an impure substance, or is her status that of one who came into contact with an impure substance?
The practical difference between these two possibilities is threefold: Whether or not the discharge negates her counting of 7 clean days at the end of the ziva period, whether or not it renders her impure by any amount, and whether or not it renders her impure while still inside her body as it would