Derasha 3 on Vayikra 12:2

TT #3 · Parshas Tazria · Aliyah 1 · Passuk 2

The Complete Passuk

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 27b.

Core Text of Chazal

Core Text — Niddah 27b
אִשָּׁה כִּי תַזְרִיעַ וְיָלְדָה זָכָר — מְלַמֵּד שֶׁאֲפִלּוּ לֹא יָלְדָה אֶלָּא כְעֵין שֶׁהִזְרִיעָה, טְמֵאָה לֵידָה.

English: “If a woman conceives and gives birth to a male” teaches that even if she gives birth only to something resembling what she had emitted as seed, she has the impurity of childbirth.

Type of Learning

Textual inference

What Is Learned

The phrase “if a woman conceives” supplies a basis for including a birth in which the product has become seed-like.