Mishnayos Niddah Perek 10 Mishnah 5
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With regard to a woman who died, and after her death a quarter-log of blood emerged from her body, although the blood emerged after death, it transmits ritual impurity by touching and carrying, due to the impurity of the spot of blood of a menstruating woman. This impurity as blood of menstruation applies to any amount of blood she emits, despite the halakha that generally, the blood of a corpse transmits impurity only if it is at least a quarter-log in volume. And as it is a quarter-log of blood, it transmits impurity in a tent, as it is the blood of a corpse. Rabbi Yehuda says: That quarter-log of blood does not transmit impurity due to the impurity of the spot of blood of a menstruating woman, because that blood was displaced after she died. And Rabbi Yehuda concedes in the case of a woman who is sitting in childbirth on the travailing chair [mashber] and she died, and a quarter-log of blood emerged from her body, that this blood transmits ritual impurity due to the impurity of the spot of blood of a menstruating woman. In that case, the blood was displaced while she was still alive. Rabbi Yosei said: For that reason, that quarter-log of blood does not transmit impurity in a tent, as it did not come from a corpse.
הָאִשָּׁה שֶׁמֵּתָה וְיָצָא מִמֶּנָּה רְבִיעִית דָּם, מְטַמְּאָה מִשּׁוּם כֶּתֶם, וּמְטַמְּאָה בְאֹהֶל. רַבִּי יְהוּדָה אוֹמֵר, אֵינָהּ מְטַמְּאָה מִשּׁוּם כֶּתֶם, מִפְּנֵי שֶׁנֶּעֱקַר מִשֶּׁמֵּתָה. וּמוֹדֶה רַבִּי יְהוּדָה בְּיוֹשֶׁבֶת עַל מַשְׁבֵּר וּמֵתָה וְיָצָא מִמֶּנָּה רְבִיעִית דָּם, שֶׁהִיא מְטַמְּאָה מִשּׁוּם כֶּתֶם. אָמַר רַבִּי יוֹסֵי, לְפִיכָךְ אֵינָהּ מְטַמְּאָה בְאֹהֶל:
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מטמאה משום כתם של נדה, במשהו דאי משום טומאת מת, לא מטמאה אלא ברביעית:
ומטמאה באוהל. אם כל הרביעית יחד:
שמטמא משום כתם. במשהו. שנעקר מחיים. ואין הלכה לא כרבי יהודה ולא כרבי יוסי. הלכך, לא שנא יושבת על משבר ולא שנא שאר מתות, כולהו מטמאות משום כתם, ומטמאות באוהל:
מטמאה משום כתם – [the bloodstain] of menstrual blood with a little bit, for if it was because of defilement with the dead , it does not defile other than with a quarter [of a LOG] (See also Tractate Ohalot, Chapter 2, Mishnah 2 – where it states: “A quarter LOG of blood and a quarter-LOG of blood that flows from a person at the time of his death or afterward/דם תבוסה which is a primary source of ritual impurity, even though it is possible that some of the blood flowed from the body before death).
ומטמאה באוהל – if all of the one-quarter [of a LOG] is together.
שמטמא משום כתם = with a little bit, that it was uprooted/detached from [the body after death] while living. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yehuda nor according to Rabbi Yossi. Therefore, it doesn’t make a difference if she was sitting on the travailing chair [when she died] or regarding other dead women, all of them defile because of a bloodstain and defile through overshadowing in a tent.