We will now discuss the ritual defilement that a woman contracts from non-menstrual bleeding.
If a woman bleeds for only one day or two consecutive days during her 11-day non-menstrual span, and then passes one full day clear of bleeding, she may immerse herself in a mikveh on that clear day, after which she becomes rid of this defilement. On the evening following her immersion, she is permitted to eat all consecrated food to which she is entitled, including sacrificial meat, and to enter the Tabernacle precincts.
If, however, her bleeding continues for three or more consecutive days, the law is different:
A woman whose discharge of uterine blood flows for more than two days, i.e., a minimum of three days, and these three or more days occur outside of but immediately following the 7-day span of her menstrual separation; or she has a discharge of blood for three or more days after the 7-day span of her menstrual separation but removed from it by between one and ten intervening days, then, in either such case, she will be ritually defiled all the days of her defiling discharge, in the same manner that she is ritually defiled during the days of her menstrual separation.
Thus, any object intended for reclining upon, upon which she reclines throughout the duration of her discharge will be treated—with regard to becoming defiled and defiling other entities—the same way as an object intended for reclining upon is treated during her period of menstrual separation. Similarly, any object intended for sitting upon, upon which she sits will thereby become defiled in the same way such an object becomes defiled during her period of menstrual defilement.
Anyone who touches such objects will become ritually defiled. In addition, any garments that this person is touching or otherwise wearing while this ritual impurity is being transmitted to him also become ritually defiled. He must therefore immerse his garments and immerse himself in the water of a mikveh, after which he will remain defiled until evening, at which time he will become rid of this defilement.
If she becomes rid of her discharge, i.e., the discharge clearly ceases, she must count for herself seven consecutive days during which she remains free of any discharge. After this, she may immerse herself in a mikveh on the seventh day and thus become undefiled in that she will no longer defile anyone or anything else, and she may consume terumah if she is entitled to, but she may still not consume sacrificial meat or enter the Tabernacle precincts.
Seventh Reading
On the eighth day, she must take for herself two turtledoves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest after coming with them to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.
