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Derasha 12 on Vayikra 12:2

TT #12 · Parshas Tazria · Aliyah 1 · Passuk 2

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דַּבֵּ֞ר אֶל־בְּנֵ֤י יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר אִשָּׁה֙ כִּ֣י תַזְרִ֔יעַ וְיָלְדָ֖ה זָכָ֑ר וְטָֽמְאָה֙ שִׁבְעַ֣ת יָמִ֔ים כִּימֵ֛י נִדַּ֥ת דְּוֺתָ֖הּ תִּטְמָֽא׃

English: Speak to the Israelite people thus: When a woman at childbirth bears a male, she shall be impure seven days; she shall be impure as at the time of her condition of menstrual separation.

Chabad.org — Chumash, English translation + Rashi for Vayikra 12:2

Source Citation

Torah Temimah cites Niddah 37b.

E-Daf — Niddah 37b · Shas.org

Core Text of Chazal

Core Text — Niddah 37b
כִּימֵי נִדַּת דְּוֹתָהּ תִּטְמָא — מַקִּישׁ יְמֵי לֵידָתָהּ לִימֵי נִדָּתָהּ: מַה יְמֵי נִדָּתָהּ אֵין רְאוּיִין לְזִיבָה וְאֵין סְפִירַת שִׁבְעָה עוֹלָה מֵהֶן, אַף יְמֵי לֵידָתָהּ אֵין רְאוּיִין לְזִיבָה וְאֵין סְפִירַת שִׁבְעָה עוֹלָה מֵהֶן.

English: “As in the days of the menstruation of her sickness she shall be impure” compares the days after childbirth to menstrual days: just as menstrual days are not suitable for zavah counting and a seven-day count does not accrue from them, so too the days after childbirth are not suitable for zavah status and a seven-day count does not accrue from them.

Type of Learning

Analogy

What Is Learned

The niddah comparison carries over the exclusion of these days from zavah status and from a separate seven-day clean count.

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