(Mahorshach; Rabbi Shimshon Bloch; c.1670-1737; Germany), quoted in Tosefot Chadashim, Niddah 1:4:
ר' שמשון חסיד (מהורש"ח), בתוספות חדשים, נדה א, ד (מודפס בששה סדרי משנה, כרך יג (טהרות ג) (ירושלים: מאורות, תשל"ו); ז"ל
[תי"ט ד"ה] ר"מ אומר כו' ונעשה חלב כו' עכ"ל. וצ"ע דפליגי במציאות וע"ק דבאמת מחזקינן דאשה כל זמן שמניקה אינה רואה דם אפילו כמה שנים דאם אינה מניקה תיכף אחר לידתה איזה שבועות תראה וזה שכיח ברוב נשים גם כל חכמי הרופאים אומרים כך ונ"ל דודאי גם חכמים ס"ל דהנקה גורם סילוק דמים רק שס"ל שלא באה כלל דם רק מיד נעשה חלב ור"מ ס"ל שנעשה דם ואח"כ נעשה חלב ולכן לרבנן כיון שהיא רואה דם הוא בטבעו כמו קודם לידה ומתעכב בבית החיצון רק בתוך כ"ד חדש א"א להתעכב מחמת שנתפרקו איבריה מלידה ולכן דיה שעתה כ"ד חודש ולא יותר אבל ר"מ לא ס"ל האי סברא רק שהנקה גורם שהדם נשתנה טבעו ונעכר כו' וא"כ אע"ג שתראה דם כבר נשתנה מטבעו א"כ נשתנה ג"כ לענין זה שאינו מתעכב בבית החיצון באשר שאינו עבה ואינו נדבק כשאר דם. (ממהורש"ח זצ"ל): עכ"ל
["Rabbi Meir believes the blood becomes turbid and turns to milk; the sages disagree"—Tosefot Yom Tov.] This requires investigation, for [Rabbi Meir and the sages] are arguing about a question of fact [not of reasoning]. A further difficulty is that we actually know from experience that as long as a woman is nursing, she does not menstruate, even [if she nurses] for several years; [and] that if she does not nurse right after childbirth – for even a few weeks – she will menstruate. This is true of most women and all physicians affirm it. It seems to me that the sages, too, believe that nursing leads to the absence of blood, except they hold that [the bodily fluid from which the milk is formed] is at no point blood, turning instead directly into milk, whereas Rabbi Meir holds that it becomes first blood and then milk. Therefore, the sages believe that if the woman sees blood, it is regular menstrual blood like that [which flowed] before the childbirth, and it is accumulating in the outer chamber – except that during the first 24 months [after childbirth] it cannot collect because her members have spread out as a result of the birth, and so exclusively during the first 24 months she can assume it began to flow only when she first saw it. But Rabbi Meir does not accept that idea, holding instead that the nursing causes the blood to change its character and become turbid [and turn into milk]. Consequently, even if she sees blood, it has already changed from its sanguine character [to become milk], and thus for the purposes of niddah as well, its character has changed, in that it does not collect in the outer chamber, since it is not viscous, and does not adhere like other blood. [She must therefore take the precaution of assuming it started to flow immediately after she last checked for blood.] [translation by HWMNBN]
(Reference from Rabbi Chaim Chizkiya Medini, Sedei Chemed, Ma'arechet Hamem #164 ("Machloket bimtziyut").)
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
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