Zavim 1:1 - 1:2

הרואה ראיה אחת של זוב – flux that comes from the flesh of a corpse and it is similar to the white of a rotten/smashed egg. But effusion of semen comes from flesh that has not died, and is joined like the white of an egg that is not rotten/smashed.

בית שמאי אומרים כשומרת יום [כנגד יום] (like a woman who observes a day for a day) – for even though she is not a complete woman who experiences a flow of menstrual-type blood on three consecutive days during a time of the month when she is not due to experience menstrual bleeding until three sightings, nevertheless, with one sighting, she makes a surface designated for lying and sitting ritually impure, just like a person with gonorrhea, even though he does not become a complete person with gonorrhea/flux until three sightings, nevertheless, with one sighting he makes surfaces designated for lying and sitting ritually impure.

ובית הלל אומר כבעל קרי (like a person who experienced a seminal emission) -and he does not make surfaces designated for lying and sitting ritually impure, and a sighting does not defile through carrying, but only through contact/touching.

ראה אחת ובשני הפסיק ובשלישי ראה שתים – for if he saw two sightings on one day or on two consecutive days, he must count seven clean [days], and he is exempt from the sacrifice. But if he saw three sightings on one day or on three consecutive days, he must count seven clean [days] and he is liable for a sacrifice, as it teaches in a Baraita: Scripture counted two [days] and called him ritually impure, as it is written (Leviticus 15:2): “When any man has a discharge issuing from his member, he is impure”/"זב מבשרו זובו טמא הוא"; three [sightings] and he is called impure, (Leviticus 15:3): “The impurity from his discharge shall mean the following – whether his member runs with the discharge or is stopped up so that there is no discharge, his impurity means this:”/ואתה תהיה טומאתו בזובו רר בשרו את-זובו או-החתים בשרו מזובו טמאתו היא.", how so? Two [sightings] for ritual impurity and three [sightings] for [an obligatory] sacrifice. But a woman who experiences a flow of menstrual-type blood on three consecutive days during a time of the month when she is not due to experience menstrual bleeding/זבה if she saw many sightings on one day or on two days not during the time of her menstrual bleeding, observes one day in cleanliness and she is ritually pure in the evening. But if she saw three sightings [of non-menstrual bleeding] on three consecutive days, she needs to count seven clean days and she is liable for a sacrifice. For concerning a זבה/a woman who experiences a flow of menstrual -type blood on three consecutive days during a time of the month when she is not due to experience menstrual bleeding, it is written (Leviticus 15:25): "ואשה כי-תזוב [יזוב] דמה ימים רבים בלא עת-נדתה"/When a woman has had a discharge of blood for many days, not at the time of her menstrual impurity” (The text of Bartenura “misquotes” the Biblical verse -what is in brackets is what is found in the text of the Torah); [The word] "ימים"/days- are two; [the word] "רבים" /many – are “three.” Scripture suspends/hangs the man who has gonorrhea through sightings, and the woman who has discharges of blood outside the time of her menstrual impurity through days, and now it states, that if the man who has a flux has three sightings, but that he stopped for one day between the first sighting and the latter two sightings.

בית שמאין אומרים זב גמור [he is a complete man with flux/gonorrhea] and he is liable for a sacrifice like a person with three sightings.

ובית הלל אומרים – the pure day [in-between] nullified the first sighting, and there isn’t here other than the two latter sightings [of flux], and he is exempt from the sacrifice.

מודים בית שמאי בזה שאינו זב גמור – for the pure day that interrupted nullified the first sighting, as we have stated.

על מה נחלקו על הרואה שתים וכו', בית שמאי אומרים זב גמור – for since it was joined to the counting of seven [days] when he saw two [sightings] at the outset, the sighting nullified the pure day (i.e., without sightings), and he has in his hands three sightings.

ביום השלישי לספירת זובו – as for example, a personw ho two sightings who needs to count seven clean [days], and he counted the first and the second, and on the third saw an emission, it invalidates the two days that preceded it, and he returns and counts seven [days] like at the outset.

לא סתר אלא יומו – and he counts five [days] to complete the seven, for the first two did not count for him.

הרואה בשני – that he counted one [clean day], and on the second saw an emission, he invalidated that which was before it, even according to the School of Hillel, but Rabbi Akiba holds that in this also they disagree. But the Halakah is not according to Rabbi Yishmael.

ומודים – The School of Shammai. ברואה קרי ברביעי שלא סתר אלא יומו – that those that were before it counted for him. For specifically when the fluxes were not interrupted with three clean days, according to the number of days that makes a person a complete זב, it is this case where the School of Shammai states that the effusion of semen invalidates it, but after three pure days have passed, the School of Shammai agrees that an emission does not invalidate anything other than that day, and in this that one calls that a person with gonorrhea invalidates, one derives from Scripture, as it is written (Leviticus 15:32): “This is the ritual concerning him who has a discharge: concerning him who has an emission of semen and becomes impure thereby.” Just as flux invalidates, even effusion of semen invalidates. If just as a flux invalidates everything, so the effusion of semen invalidates everything, the inference teaches us (Leviticus 15:32): "לטמאה בה"/”and become pure thereby,” she only has one day. But if he saw a flux, even on the seventh day, it invalidates what is before it, as it is written (Leviticus 15:13): “[he shall count off] seven days for his purification,” until all seven days would be pure from the discharges.