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Mishnayos Niddah Perek 1 Mishnah 3

נדה פרק א׳ משנה ג׳

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Rabbi Eliezer says: Unlike the women with regard to whom it was taught that they transmit impurity retroactively, there are four women who discern menstrual blood and their time is sufficient, i.e., they transmit impurity only from the moment that they saw the blood: A virgin, a pregnant woman, a nursing woman, and an elderly woman. Rabbi Yehoshua says: I heard this halakha from my teachers only with regard to a virgin, but the halakha is in accordance with the opinion of Rabbi Eliezer.

רַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר אוֹמֵר, אַרְבַּע נָשִׁים דַּיָּן שְׁעָתָן, בְּתוּלָה, מְעֻבֶּרֶת, מֵנִיקָה וּזְקֵנָה. אָמַר רַבִּי יְהוֹשֻׁעַ, אֲנִי לֹא שָׁמַעְתִּי אֶלָּא בְתוּלָה, אֲבָל הֲלָכָה כְּרַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר:

ג׳
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ארבע נשים דיין שעתן – that the don’t regularly see blood.

אבל הלכה כרבי אליעזר – and this is what comes out from the Gemara (Tractate Niddah 7b) that the Halakha is according to Rabbi Eliezer.

ארבע נשים דיין שעתן. דאינן רגילות לראות דם:

אבל הלכה כרבי אליעזר. והכי מסיק בגמרא דהלכה כרבי אליעזר: