משנה: הַמַּפֶּלֶת חֲתִיכָה אִם יֵשׁ עִמָּהּ דָּם טְמֵאָה וְאִם לָאו טְהוֹרָה. רִבִּי יְהוּדָה אוֹמֵר בֵּין כָּךְ וּבֵין כָּךְ טְמֵאָה. MISHNAH: If a woman has a miscarriage in the form of a lump1Not anything recognizable as a human fetus.; if this was accompanied by blood she is impure2Impure as menstruating, not as giving birth., otherwise she is pure. Rebbi Jehudah says, in any case she is impure.
הלכה: הַמַּפֶּלֶת חֲתִיכָה כול׳. רַבָּנִן אָֽמְרִין. מָקוֹר הוּא שֶׁהוּא מְגַדֵּל חֲתִיכָה. רִבִּי יוּדָה אוֹמֵר. דָּם הוּא שֶׁהוּא קָרוּשׁ וְנַעֲשֶׂה חֲתִיכָה. HALAKHAH: “If a woman has a miscarriage in the form of a lump,” etc. The Sages say, the uterus grows the lump3The miscarriage is neither a birth nor menstruation; it cannot be classified with anything implying impurity.. Rebbi Jehudah says, blood congealed and was formed into a lump4Since any blood seeping from the walls of the uterus is a source of impurity, the fact of the discharge is proof of impurity..
אָמַר רִבִּי יוֹחָנָן. לֹא טִימֵּא רִבִּי יוּדָה אֶלָּא כְגוֹן אַרְבָּעָה מִינֵי דָמִים. רִבִּי יַעֲקֹב בַּר אָחָא רִבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן בָּר בָּא בְשֵׁם רִבִּי יוֹסֵי בֵּירִבִּי נְהוֹרַיי. הֲלָכָה כְרִבִּי יוּדָה. שָׁמַע רִבִּי לָֽעְזָר וָמַר. אֵינִי מְקַבֵּל עָלַי אֶת הַדָּבָר הַזֶּה. שְׁמוּאֵל אָמַר. הֲלָכָה כְרִבִּי יוּדָה. אָמַר רִבִּי זְעִירָה. לֹא דוּ אָמַר. הֲלָכָה כְרִבִּי יוּדָה. אֶלָּא דוּ חֲמֵי רַבָּנִן נְהִגִין כְּרִבִּי יְהוּדָה. רִבִּי יוֹחָנָן בְשֵׁם רִבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן בֶּן יוֹחָי. קוֹרְעָהּ. וְאִם נִמְצָא בָהּ דָּם אָגוּר טְמֵאָה וְאִם לָאו טְהוֹרָה. תַּנָּהּ רִבִּי לִיעֶזֶר בֶּן יַעֲקֹב וּפְלִיגָא עַל רִבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן בֶּן יוֹחָי. דָּם יִהְיֶה זוֹבָהּ בִּבְשָׂרָהּ. לֹא מַה שֶׁבִּשְׁפִיר וְלֹא מַה שֶׁבַּחֲתִיכָה. Rebbi Joḥanan said, Rebbi Jehudah declared impure only in the color of the four kinds of blood5In the Babli, 21a, R. Joḥanan is reported to hold that even the Sages agree that a lump in the color of the four types recognized as impure blood (taking red and black together) makes the woman impure; for him the disagreement between the Sages and R. Jehudah refers only to lumps that do not look like blood. R. Joḥanan’s opinion as quoted here is ascribed in the Babli to Rav Jehudah in the name of Samuel.. Rebbi Jacob bar Aḥa, Rebbi Simeon bar Abba, in the name of Rebbi Yose bar Nehorai: Practice follows Rebbi Jehudah. Rebbi Eleazar heard that and said, I do not accept this. Samuel said, practice follows Rebbi Jehudah. Rebbi Ze‘ira said, he did not say that practice follows Rebbi Jehudah but he saw that the rabbis are used to follow Rebbi Jehudah6There is no principle involved that practice should follow R. Jehudah; he only stated what he recognized as usual among Babylonian rabbis.. Rebbi Joḥanan in the name of Rebbi Simeon bar Ioḥai: One tears it open. If one finds blood collected there, she is impure, otherwise she is pure7In the Babli, 21b, this is a tannaїtic statement of Symmachos attributed to R. Meïr.. Rebbi Eliezer ben Jacob stated, disagreeing with Rebbi Simeon ben Ioḥai: “Blood would be her flow from her genitals,8. Lev. 15:19.” not what is in the amnion nor in a lump9In the Babli, 21b, this is an amoraic statement attributed to R. Ze‘ira. The explanation of the verse in Sifra Meṣora‘ Parašah 4(4) is rejected by R. Ze‘ira in the Babli, 21b, and by R. Simeon (ben Ioḥai) in Sifra..