Kollel Iyun Hadaf, Jerusalem
(a) What do we learn from "Yitma Shiv'as Yamim"?2) Were *all* Kutim really Bo'alei Nidos?
(a) Why would it have been a big Takanah had the Kuti'os to sat for every sighting?According to the second explanation, the Kuti'os would count the day that they stopped, in the seven.
(b) What does that mean?
4) The Gemara asks whether a Poletes Shichvas Zera is Soser by a Zavah.
(a) What does this mean, and what are its ramifications?Rava initially refutes the very Sha'aleh, because, he asks, how many days must she be Soser.
(b) What is Rava's dilemma?5)
(a) What sort of a man must Rav Shmuel have been, for the old woman to have wished Rav Papa to be like him?Rav Shmuel asked from the Mishnah in Taharos, which lists six cases of Safek on which one burns Terumah, on our Mishnah, which writes that one does not burn the Terumah touched by a garment belonging to a Bas Kuti.
(b) How did Rav Papa establish our Mishnah to answer this Kashya?6) As long as the Benos Tzedokim follow in the footsteps of their fathers, they have the Din of Bas Kuti (as described in the previous Mishnah). The moment they undertake to follow the path of the Benos Yisrael, they have the Din of a Bas Yisrael.
(a) What Din will they have, if we do not know which path they are following ('Stam'), and from where do we know that?