משנה: בְּנוֹת כּוּתִים נִידּוֹת מֵעֲרִיסָתָן. וְהַכּוּתִּים מְטַמְּאִין מִשְׁכָּב תַּחְתּוֹן כָּעֶלְיוֹן מִפְּנֵי שֶׁהֵן בּוֹעֲלֵי נִידּוֹת וְהֵן יוֹשְׁבוֹת עַל כָּל דָּם. וְאֵין חַייָבִין עֲלֵיהֶן עַל בִּיאַת הַמִּקְדָּשׁ וְאֵין שׂוֹרְפִין עֲלֵיהֶן אֶת הַתְּרוּמָה מִפְּנֵי שֶׁטוּמְאָתָן בְּסָפֵק. MISHNAH: The daughters of Samaritans are menstruating from their cribs1It can happen that a newborn baby girl, under the influence of the activated sex hormones of the mother, shows a slight vaginal discharge. According to pharisaic tradition, such a baby girl has to be purified by immersion in a miqweh. The Samaritans, a Sadducee sect, apply the rules of menstruation only to girls from their puberty on. Therefore, a prepuberty Samaritan girl might be impure by Pharisaic standards., and Samaritan men make impure bottoms like uppers2This is a technical term not easily translated. The sufferer from gonorrhea makes any textile on his couch severely impure; that textile has the ability to make humans and vessels impure. A garment worn by the sufferer from gonorrhea is also impure, but it makes only food and drink impure. The textile on the couch of a man who slept with a menstruating woman (the bottom) is impure in the impurity of a garment of the sufferer from gonorrhea (the upper). because they sleep with menstruating woman since they sit for every blood3Samaritans, like all Sadducees, are extremely careful not to sleep with menstruating women. They are treated here as “sleepers with menstruating women” because they consider any vaginal discharge as menstrual; they do not recognize the different shades of blood at the core of pharisaic doctrine (Mishnah 2:5). If a woman has a discharge, she starts counting 7 days and then cleanses herself in a miqweh. But in pharisaic theory, she could have a pure discharge on the first day and an impure on the second or third; then the seventh day of her count would be only the sixth or fifth for a pharisaic woman. Therefore, a Samaritan woman might tell her husband that she was pure when in pharisaic theory she was still impure. (A pharisaic woman only has the choice either of showing her blood to a rabbi or to start counting from the last day of her period.)
The compliment was returned by the Sadducees who accused the Pharisees to “make the Temple impure because they do not separate themselves [from their wives] following the Torah and sleep with one who sees the blood of her discharge” (CD V:6).. But one is not guilty about them for entering the Temple and one does not burn heave because of them since their impurity is one of doubt4Since it is very unlikely that a Samaritan girl or man really be impure when he or she say that they are pure, one cannot act on their impurity except of not using heave touched by a Samaritan..
הלכה: בְּנוֹת כּוּתִים נִידּוֹת מֵעֲרִיסָתָן כול׳. דַּם נִידָּה זָהוּם דַּם בְּתוּלִים אֵינוֹ זָהוּם. דַּם נִידָּה אָדוֹם דַּם בְּתוּלִים אֵינוֹ אָדוֹם. דַּם נִידָּה מִן הַמָּקוֹר דַּם בְּתוּלִים אֵינוֹ מִן הַמָּקוֹר אֶלָּא מִן הַצַּד. HALAKHAH: “The daughters of Samaritans are menstruating from their cribs,” etc. 5Also quoted in the Babli, 65b. Menstrual blood is dirty, virginal blood is not dirty. Menstrual blood is red, virginal blood is not red. Menstrual blood is from the womb, virginal blood is not from the womb but from the side.