Niddah 53B

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and only thereafter the twilight of R' Yosei begins, when there is uncertainty, and there is a concern that perhaps she saw blood at that time. And that tanna of the second baraita holds that the twilight of R' Yosei is subsumed within and occurs at the end of the twilight of R' Yehuda. According

§ On the topic of a woman seeing a stain, A baraita states: A woman who sees a red stain on her garment renders herself and consecrated items that she touched impure retroactively, from the time when that garment was last laundered. This is the statement of R' Yehuda HaNasi.

R' Shimon ben Elazar says: She does render consecrated items that she touched impure retroactively, but she does not render herself impure with regard to rendering impure objects that she touched since the time the garment was last laundered. The reason is that her stain should not be more stringen

The Talmud asks: But don’t we find that R' Shimon ben Elazar himself holds that her stain is more stringent than her actual seeing of blood with regard to consecrated items? Her stain renders such items impure retroactively from the time that the garment was laundered, whereas her actually seeing bl

The Talmud answers: Rather, teach the baraita like this: R' Shimon ben Elazar says that she does not even render consecrated items that she touched impure retroactively from the time that the garment was laundered, but only those items that she touched during the past 24-hour period. The reason is t