Tiresias: The Ancient Mediterranean Religions Source Database

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Mishnah, Niddah, 3.2

nan If a woman miscarried an object that was like a rind, like a hair, like earth, like red flies, let her put it in water: If it dissolves she is unclean, But if it does not she is clean. If she miscarried an object in the shape of fishes, locusts, or any forbidden things or creeping things: If there was blood with them she is unclean, If not, she is clean. If she miscarried an object in the shape of a beast, a wild animal or a bird, whether clean or unclean: If it was a male she sits in uncleanness as she would for a male; And if it was a female she sits in uncleanness as she would for a female. But if the sex is unknown she sits in uncleanness for both male and female, the words of Rabbi Meir. The sages say: anything that has not the shape of a human being cannot be regarded as a human child."

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subject	book bibliographic info
bones	Balberg (2014) 220, 232
rot (raqav) impurity	Balberg (2014) 220
seminal emissions	Balberg (2014) 232
thought (mahshava),role of in purity system	Balberg (2014) 220, 232
visibility,implications of for im/purity'	Balberg (2014) 232
visibility,implications of for im/purity	Balberg (2014) 220