Niddah 3:4-5
Niddah 3:4
If a woman miscarries something that resembles a sandal or a placenta, she must observe both the procedure for after delivering a boy and the procedure for after delivering a girl. If there’s a placenta in a house, the house is ritually unclean. This isn’t because a placenta is a fetus, it’s because there’s no placenta without a fetus. Rabbi Shimon says that the fetus was absorbed within the placenta before it came out.
Niddah 3:5
If a woman miscarries a hermaphrodite or a fetus of indeterminate gender, she must observe both the procedure for after delivering a boy and the procedure for after delivering a girl. If she miscarries both a male and a hermaphrodite or both a male and a fetus of indeterminate gender, she observes both the procedure for a boy and for a girl. If she miscarries both a female and a hermaphrodite or both a female and a fetus of indeterminate gender, she only observes the procedure for a girl. If a fetus comes out in pieces or backwards, it is considered delivered once the greater part of it has come out; if it comes out in the normal fashion, it is considered born once the greater part of the head emerges. By “the greater part,” we mean the forehead.
Grateful Thanks for the Mishna Yomit Dedication of
Rabbi Louis Leifer and Mrs. Miriam D. Leifer z"l
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