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actually misguided? Since they are in doubt as to their status, would it not be more accurate to say that they are mistaken? The Talmud answers: Rather, this is how one should teach the statement of R' Yehoshua in the Mishnah: Instead of making provisions to remedy the uncertainties of the mistak
As it is taught in a baraita with regard to these competent women: What is the halakha in the case of a woman who consistently has the following pattern for each pair of days: One day she is impure, i.e., she experiences bleeding, and one day she is pure, she does not experience bleeding? In what
In addition, she may have sex 4 nights out of the cycle of 18 days, which consist of the 7 menstrual days and the 11 days of the flow of the zava. This woman will never become a greater zava, as she does not emit blood on consecutive days. Since she must observe a day of purity during the 11 days o
If in every set of 4 days, two days she is impure, i.e., experiences bleeding, and two days she is pure, she may have sex with her husband on the 8th day, in the day or at night, and also on the 12th day, after observing the 11th as a day of purity for the sightings of the 9th and tenth days, and
The Talmud objects: And let her also have sex with her husband on the 19th day, as the 11 days of the flow of the zava have already passed at the end of the 18th day, and she is no longer required to observe a clean day for each day she experiences a discharge. Rav Sheshet says: That is to say that