Today's Mishnah Yomi
Niddah 2:3 - 2:4
The Mishnah Yomi for Friday, May 28, 2027 is Niddah 2:3 - 2:4
Mishnah 1
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נדה פרק ב׳ משנה ג׳
Bartenura
ותדיח את פניה. קינוח שלמטה:
ואח״כ. כלומר אם שהתה יותר משיעור זה:
מטמאה מעת לעת. טהרות שנתעסקה בהן. כדין מעת לעת דאמרינן בפרק קמא:
ואינה מטמאה את בועלה. טומאת שבעה, אלא טומאת ערב כדין כל נוגע בנדה:
ר׳ עקיבא אומר אף מטמאה את בועלה. דסבר ר׳ עקיבא כל מעת לעת מטמאה את בועלה טומאת שבעה מספק. ואין הלכה כרבי עקיבא:
ומודים חכמים לר׳ עקיבא ברואה כתם. ואע״ג דבטומאת מעת לעת אמרו חכמים שאינה מטמאה את בועלה לפי שטומאת מעת לעת אינה אלא מדרבנן, מודים הם ברואה כתם, דאע״ג דטומאת כתמים דרבנן, מטמאה את בועלה טומאת שבעה:
Mishnah 2
Mishnayos Niddah Perek 2 Mishnah 4
נדה פרק ב׳ משנה ד׳
Bartenura
כל הנשים בחזקת טהרה לבעליהן – and he doesn’t need to ask her if she is [ritually] pure. And these words [apply], when he left her in a presumption/state of [ritual] purity.
הבאין מן הדרך נשיהן להן בחזקת טהורה – that you might think I would say that these words [apply], where that he is in the town, that he is lying to her and she examined herself, but not where he is not in the town, that he didn’t lie to her, it comes to teach the opposite. Two pieces of cloth for every sexual intercourse. One before and one afterwards, and on the morrow, she will examine them (see Tractate Niddah 15a).
או תשמש לאור הנר – and she will heck after sexual intercourse until she wipes herself with it (i.e., the cloth).
דיה בשני עדים כל הלילה – one prior to the first sexual intercourse, and one after the final sexual intercourse. But even though that she did not know if she had seen blood between one and the other [act of sexual intercourse], whether according to the School of Shammai or whether according to the School of Hillel, it does not matter to us, for it was not needed other than for matter of [ritual] purity.
כל הנשים בחזקת טהרה לבעליהן. ואין צריך לשאול לה אם היא טהורה. והני מילי, כשהניחה בחזקת טהורה:
הבאין מן הדרך נשיהן להן בחזקת טהרה. דסלקא דעתך אמינא הני מילי היכא דאיתיה במתא, דרמיא אנפשה ובדקה, אבל היכא דליתיה במתא, דלא רמיא אנפשה, לא, קמשמע לן:
שני עדים על כל תשמיש. אחד לפניו ואחד לאחריו, ולמחר תעיין בהם:
או תשמש לאור הנר. ותבדוק לאחר תשמיש עד שקנחה בו:
דיה בשני עדים כל הלילה. אחד לפני תשמיש ראשון, ואחד לאחר תשמיש אחרון. ואע״ג דמשמשה ולא ידעה אי ראתה דם ביני וביני, בין לבית שמאי בין לבית הלל לא אכפת לן, דלא הוצרכו אלא לחומר טהרות:
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ותדיח את פניה – wiping that of the bed.
ואח"כ – meaning to say, if she delayed more than this measure [of time] (see Talmud Niddah 14b).
מטמאה מעת לעת- [ritually] pure things that she was engaged with. Like the law of checking every astronomical period of twenty-four hours as we stated in the first chapter (Mishnah 1).
ואינה מטמאה את בועלה –[she does not impart uncleanness to him who had sexual relations with her] for a defilement of seven days, but rather, the defilement of one evening, according to the law of anyone who comes in contact with a menstruant woman.
ר' עקיבא אומר אף מטמאה את בועלה – that Rabbi Akiva holds that every astronomical period of twenty-four hours she defiles the person who had sexual relations with her a doubtful seven day period of defilement. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Akiva.
ומודים חכמים לר' עקיבא ברואה כתם (a blood stain on part of her clothing where it is attributable to uterine bleeding) – and even though that in the defilement of an astronomical period of twenty-four hours the Sages stated that she does not defile the person who had sexual relations with her because the defilement of an astronomical period of twenty-four hours is not other than only from the Rabbis, they agree with regard to seeing a blood stain on her clothing, that even though the defilement of a blood stain is according to the Rabbis, it defiles the person who had sexual relations with her a seven day period of [ritual] defilement.