Derasha 4 on Vayikra 12:2

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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 40a.

Core Text of Chazal

Core Text — Niddah 40a
אִשָּׁה כִּי תַזְרִיעַ וְיָלְדָה זָכָר — עַד שֶׁתֵּלֵד מִמָּקוֹם שֶׁהִיא מַזְרַעַת.

English: “If a woman conceives and gives birth to a male” means that she must give birth through the place where she conceives.

Type of Learning

Limitation by textual precision

What Is Learned

The wording limits the childbirth laws in this context to a natural birth through the birth canal, excluding a caesarean birth.