(Mishnah): Who is a Zekenah? It is a woman who did not see blood for three periods close to her old age (this will be explained);

R. Lazar says, any woman who did not see blood for three periods is Dayah Shaitah.

R. Yosi says, a pregnant or nursing woman, over whom three periods passed without blood, is Dayah Shaitah.

(Gemara - R. Meir): Due to milk, the blood departs.

R. Yosi says, due to pain [of birth], the blood departs.

Consequence: There is a leniency and stringency of R. Meir's words, and a a leniency and stringency of R. Yosi's words;

The leniency of R. Meir's words - if [the baby] continued to nurse for four or five years, Dayah Shaitah. The stringency is, if she gave her son to a wet-nurse, or if she weaned him, or he died, she is [retroactively] Metamei 24 hours.

The leniency of R. Yosi words - if she gave her son to a wet-nurse, or if she weaned him, or he died, she is Dayah Shaitah. They stringency is, if [the baby] continued to nurse for four or five years, it is forbidden (i.e. she is retroactively Metamei 24 hours only) until 24 months.

Question: R. Meir said [that if she weaned her son,] she is Metamei 24 hours. Is this immediately, or when the baby ceases and cannot return?

Answer: We learn from the following. A baby may go and nurse until 24 full months. From now and onwards is like one who suckles from a Sheretz. R. Eliezer says so;

R. Yehoshua says, he may continue to nurse even four or five years, and it is permitted. If he separated, we may not return him.

Question: How long [may he separate, and we may return him]?

Answer #1 (R. Yakov bar Acha citing R. Chiyah citing R. Yochanan): It is until 24 hours.

Answer #2 (R. Chizkiyah citing R. Avahu citing Reish Lakish): It is until three days, me'Es la'Es (72 hours).

What is the case? It is when he separated amidst good health, but if he separated amidst illness, we return him immediately;

And this refers to a child who is not in danger, but if he is in danger, even after many [days] we return him immediately. (GILYON EFRAYIM - if you will say that she is Dayah Shaitah until the baby ceases and cannot return, sometimes there is no limit, i.e. in a case of danger. It is unreasonable that the law vary like this. Rather, once she weans him, she is not Dayah Shaitah.)

(Mishnah): A Zekenah [is Dayah Shaitah].

Question: Who is a Zekenah?

Answer #1 (Reish Lakish): It is anyone whom they call her "Imah'', and she is not upset.

Objection: Does it depend on her mindset?!

Answer #2 (R. Avin): It is anyone proper to be called "Ima''.

(Beraisa): Male and female slaves - we do not call them Aba Ploni or Ima Plonis;

In R. Gamliel's house, they used to call the male and female slaves Aba Tavi and or Imah Tavisah.

(R. Hoshayah): If a [Nochris] gave birth and afterwards converted, she does not have Dam Tahor.

R. Yosi: He said properly.

Question: According to Levi (who says that there are two Mayanos), R. Hoshayah's teaching needs investigation. Since she has no Dam Tamei, should she not have Dam Tohar?! (Surely, a convert is biologically the same as anyone else, and the blood comes from the other Mayan during Yemei Tohar! We explained this like NO'AM YERUSHALMI.)

(Tosefta): A convert, captive, and Shifchah who converted, was redeemed or freed, must wait three months [before marrying, to avoid doubts about the father]. R. Yehudah says so;

R. Yosi says, they need not wait. (A woman who is Mezanah, she flips over so the semen will spill out, to avoid pregnancy.)

And regarding blood, R. Yehudah says Dayah Shaitah. R. Yosi says, she is Metamei 24 hours.

Rebbi says, Nir'in (I hold like) R. Yosi's words about blood, and Nir'in R. Yehudah's words about a child.

(R. Chiyah citing R. Yochanan): The Halachah follows R. Yosi [in both matters].

Question (R. Ba bar Kohen, to R. Yosi): Had [R. Chiyah] not taught so, what would we think? When R. Yehudah and R. Yosi argue, does the Halachah not follow R. Yosi?!

Answer: [It is needed] because Rebbi said Nir'in [R. Yehudah's words about a child. One might have thought that his words were Nir'in to R. Yosi, and he retracted to agree with R. Yehudah.]

Question: Didn't R. Ba teach in the name of R. Ze'irah, that wherever Rebbi said Nir'in, it is still an argument, except for a ring of pressed figs (in Tosefta Terumos 4:11? Only) there, this one agrees to this (if it is known in which part of the barrel the Terumah was put, all agree that only those figs count towards the Shi'ur for Bitul), and this one agrees to this (if it is not known where the Terumah was put, all agree that all the figs help to be Mevatel)!

Question (R. Yosi, to R. Chaninah brei d'R. Avahu): [Does R. Yosi exempt from waiting] even if it is clear that she had Bi'ah?

Answer (R. Chaninah brei d'R. Avahu): (Yes!) Are not Stam Nochriyos like Be'ulos?! (Even so, a convert need not wait. This answer assumes that a Stam convert does not guard herself for three months before converting; rather, it is likely that she had Bi'ah within this time - PF.)

(Mishnah - R. Lazar): Any woman who had three Onos without seeing, is Dayah Shaitah.

(Tosefta): They said [to R. Lazar], Chachamim said only a Zekenah.

Support (Beraisa - R. Lazar): A case occurred with a girl in Aitalu who ceased to see for three Onos. Afterwards, she saw. The case came in front of Chachamim, and they said that Dayah Shaitah;

Chachamim told [R. Lazar] you were a minor at the time, and there is no testimony about [what one saw when he was] a minor.

Once, Rebbi ruled like R. Lazar, and he was pained;

Question (R. Mana, to R. Yosi): How is this? When he ruled like the leniencies of R. Meir and the leniencies of R. Yosi, he was not pained, and here he was pained?!

Answer (R. Yosi): There, they are individuals. We can say that we join Rebbi's opinion to R. Meir, and they are a majority against R. Yosi. We join Rebbi's opinion to R. Yosi, and they are a majority against R. Meir. Here, can we join Rebbi's opinion with R. Lazar and be a majority over Chachamim?!

Further, it was taught about this "[Chachamim] said to [R. Eliezer], it was a Hora'as Sha'ah [to be lenient about Taharos that she had touched in pressed circumstances, for it was a time of famine].''

(Mishnah - R. Yosi): If a pregnant or nursing woman had three periods without blood, she is Dayah Shaitah.

It was taught about this (Tosefta 1:10) that the days of her pregnancy and her nursing join to three periods. (According to Levi, it is irrelevant whether or not she ceased at the beginning of nursing, which is during the days of Dam Tahor, for any blood then is not from the source of Dam Nidah!

Inference: [The Tana] holds that there is one Mayan.

(Mishnah): She is Dayah Shaitah the first time she sees. The 24 hours apply to the second sighting;

If her first sighting was due to Ones, she is Dayah Shaitah for her second sighting.

(Gemara - Shmuel): We learned only about a Besulah and a Zekenah, but a pregnant or nursing woman, we give to her [the law of Dayah Shaitah] all the days of pregnancy and nursing.

(Rav and R. Yochanan): The same applies to a Besulah, Zekenah, pregnant or nursing woman (our Mishnah applies to all of them).

(R. Ze'ira): Rav and R. Yochanan hold like R. Chaninah, and all of them argue with Shmuel;

(R. Lazar citing R. Chaninah): Once, Rebbi ruled like the leniencies of R. Meir and like the leniencies of R. Yosi;

What was the case? The fetus was recognized, and afterwards she saw. R. Meir says Dayah Shaitah, and R. Yosi says that she is Metamei me'Es la'Es.

If she saw many sightings, and ceased three periods, and afterwards she saw, R. Meir is Metamei me'Es la'Es, and R. Yosi says Dayah Shaitah.

If you say [like Shmuel, that in our Mishnah,] we give to [a pregnant or nursing woman the law of Dayah Shaitah] all the days of pregnancy and nursing, why do we need the leniencies of R. Yosi? R. Meir (the author of our Stam Mishnah) is more lenient than R. Yosi [who is Metamei me'Es la'Es for her first sighting]!

Rebuttal (R. Mana, to R. Yosi): (R. Chaninah did not say that Rebbi ruled like their leniencies of a pregnant woman.) Perhaps [he discusses the leniencies of] R. Meir and R. Yosi regarding milk! (R. Meir says that she is Dayah Shaitah only as long as she nurses (above, 2b). We say below that R. Yosi says that she is Dayah Shaitah for 24 months, no matter how long she was nursing.)

R. Yosi: (Correct!) It was explicitly said [that Rebbi ruled like their leniencies about milk].

Limitation: Until now we discussed a girl who reached the age to see [blood];

If a girl did not reach the age to see, and she saw, for the first sighting she is Dayah Shaitah. For the second sighting she is Dayah Shaitah. For the third sighting she is Dayah Shaitah. From now and onwards, she is Metamei for 24 hours;

(R. Yirmeyah citing Rav): [Already] for the third sighting itself, she is Metamei for 24 hours.