Talmud Illuminated

We have seen a disagreement between the two schools concerning the last, eleventh day, of a woman's niddah/zavah cycle, where Beit Sha...

After the seven days of niddah , a woman immerses herself in a mikveh, and the couple can resume normal marital relations. During the next e...

If a woman died, and then a “reviit” (about 5 ounces) of blood oozed from her uterus, this is not blood of niddah , because the woman did no...

The men of Alexandria asked Rabbi Yehoshua ben Chananya twelve things: three matters of wisdom in law, three on moral lessons, three were ju...

A zav (and also a zavah, a niddah, and a metzora – spiritual leper) who died, all convey ritual impurity through carrying. But – the Talmud...

A woman who became a niddah may purify herself seven days after her initial discharge, is she knows with certainty that the flow of blood h...

When a woman immerses in a mikveh, nothing must separate between her body and the water. This is derived from the immersion of a metzora, sp...

Rav and Shmuel both said regarding the law of a newlywed virgin bride that her husband performs only one cohabitation, which is a mitzvah, a...

When a virgin marries, it is to be expected that the rupturing of her hymen will cause her to bleed. This blood, of course, is not menstrual...

If a woman's period is accompanied by physical conditions as described earlier , the blood may still come at the beginning or at the end...

The laws that we learned at the beginning of the Tractate refer to women who do not have a fixed period. However, for those women who do ha...

When a garment has the blood of niddah on it, it becomes ritually impure. If it may come in contact with ritually pure foods, it requires i...

If three women were sleeping in one bed, and blood was found beneath one of them, all three are ritually impure. Since the blood could hav...

If a Jewish woman lent her tunic to a gentile woman, or if she lent it to a Jewess who was a niddah  at this time, and when she got the tun...

If a woman was attending to her needs (urinating) and saw blood, then Rabbi Meir resolves it as follows: if she was urinating while standing...

Shmuel made the following statement, “If a woman examined the ground of the earth and, finding it clean, sat on it, and then stood up and fo...

If a woman finds a bloodstain on her body, then if it is directly opposite her genitals, she is ritually impure. These areas would include h...

The Torah lists eight crawling animals that convey ritual impurity when they are dead . If such a dead crawler was found in an alley, then r...

Some substances convey ritual impurity while they are moist, but not after they dry up. These include the emission of a zav (a special whit...

We have mentioned multiple times the two different counts, each with its own set of laws, that a woman has: the seven-day niddah count, and ...