This library is built in the open.
If you spot an error, have a suggestion, or just want to say hello — we’d love to hear from you.

...to all the nations of the earth to walk in their upright ways, statutes, and righteous ordinances, as the Sages of blessed memory Chazal said, when they abandon their idolatry, which is against the service of the Lord and against His Torah, God forbid. And what was said will be fulfilled: "And in you shall all the nations of the earth be blessed."
And let this introduction be regarding the matter I wish to speak about: the Oral Law Torah she-be'al peh regarding hidden matters. I will return to the other matter that was interrupted because of the way of women: "She shall count unto herself seven days," as it is written in the aforementioned portion, verse 28: "And if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall count unto herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean." Verse 29: "And on the eighth day she shall take unto her two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons," etc. The explanation of "And if she be cleansed of her issue" is: if the way of women came to her on the first day of the week, and it stopped, and she checked herself until the second day of the week, she counts seven days of purity from the second day. And if she found it also on the second day, and it stopped until the third day of the week, and she checked herself and found nothing at all, she shall count for herself seven days of purity from the third day, and so on. And there is a distinction between women who have a regular time for the way of women and sickly women who do not have a fixed time regarding the seven days of purity. Therefore, the law of a woman's purity in Masechet Niddah Tractate Niddah is written after the law of a sickly woman who has seven days of issue for many days without the time of her menstrual period veset, to teach that there is no difference or atonement in the law of seven days of purity as the law that she shall count after childbirth that stopped the blood of the way of the sickly woman who has a fixed period until the end of seven full days from the time of purity that she began to count. And so is the law of a sickly woman with an issue. On the surface, this is not the law of the Oral Law, according to its opinion, contrary to the grace in the eyes of God and man, in the way...