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R' Yirmeya elaborates: There, with regard to the impurity contracted by swallowing an unslaughtered bird carcass, this unusual type of impurity does not have an equivalent form of impurity outside, since if one merely touches an unslaughtered bird carcass, he and his garments remain pure. By contr
The Talmud asks: If the reason that the woman is pure is that the blood emerged outside her body, what is the purpose of stating this halakha? Certainly, this blood renders the woman impure upon contact. The Talmud answers that this ruling is necessary, lest you say: Since the woman’s immersion is e
The Talmud objects: We have resolved our halakha, the statement of R' Zeira, but the difficulty remains with regard to the case of a woman after childbirth. In light of the explanation of R' Zeira’s opinion, the baraita cited at the beginning of the discussion, which states that a woman after chil
The Talmud explains: Here we are dealing with a dry birth, without the emission of blood, and the baraita is teaching that the woman is rendered impure despite the fact that no blood emerged. The Talmud asks: If the baraita is referring to a dry birth, what blood is there that becomes impure while
The Talmud answers that this clause is not referring to blood; rather, this is a situation where the offspring put his head out of the corridor, in which case it is considered born and renders its mother impure, despite the fact that the rest of its body has not emerged. And this is in accordance w