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Kommentar zu Tahorot 4:13

סְפֵק קָרְבָּנוֹת, הָאִשָּׁה שֶׁיֵּשׁ עָלֶיהָ סְפֵק חָמֵשׁ לֵידוֹת וּסְפֵק חָמֵשׁ זִיבוֹת, מְבִיאָה קָרְבָּן אֶחָד, וְאוֹכֶלֶת בַּזְּבָחִים, וְאֵין הַשְּׁאָר עָלֶיהָ חוֹבָה:

Die Unsicherheit in Bezug auf [die Verpflichtung, Opfer zu bringen], [zum Beispiel]: eine Frau, die auf ihren fünf unsicheren [Verpflichtungen, das nach der Geburt gebrachte Opfer zu bringen] hat [dh wenn sie eine Fehlgeburt hat und unsicher ist, ob es eine Geburt war, zu der sie verpflichtet ist ein Opfer bringen] oder fünf unsichere Entladungen [dh sie ist unsicher, ob es sich um Entladungen handelt, die sie verpflichten, ein Opfer zu bringen]; Sie bringt ein Opfer und kann dann vom Opfer essen, und sie ist nicht verpflichtet, den Rest [der Opfer] zu bringen.

Bartenura on Mishnah Tahorot

ספק קרבנות – how so? The woman who has a doubt of five miscarriages that were in doubt. מביאה קרבן אחד – a sin-offering of a fowl that comes for a doubt.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Tahorot

"And a condition of doubt concerning sacrifices" if a woman has experienced five doubtful cases of miscarriage or five discharges of doubtful zivah she brings only one sacrifice and may then eat other sacrifices, she being under no obligation to bring the remainder. The final mishnah of our chapter explains the last case of leniency with regard to doubt. The entire mishnah is found in Keritot 1:7. Below is my explanation from there: There are two situations that are described here. 1) A woman had genital discharge for three consecutive days once a month for five months and she doesn’t know if these occurred during her menstrual cycle, in which case she was not a “zavah” and does not need to bring a sacrifice, or not during her menstrual cycle and she is a zavah and does need to bring a sacrifice. 2) She had five miscarriages and she doesn’t know whether what she miscarried counts as a birth and she must bring a sacrifice or doesn’t count as a birth and she does not bring a sacrifice. In both of these cases, the woman might be liable for as many as five sacrifices (each consisting of an olah and a hatat) or she might not be liable at all. The rule in this case is that she needs to bring only one sacrifice and then she can eat any sacrificial meat, as is always the case when a woman brings a sacrifice for being a zavah or for giving birth. While she can, if she wants, bring four more sacrifices, she need not do so.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Tahorot

ואוכלת בזבחים – that this sacrifice comes to compete her ritual purity and it is like ritual immersion, for if the woman was defiled several defilements, one ritual immersion counts for all of them, even this sacrifice as well.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Tahorot

ואין השאר עליה חובה – the Sages did not require her to bring them (the other sacrifices), for even the one, with difficulty, they permitted to bring a doubtfully pinched unconsecrated offering to the Altar, but in order to make for her an ordinance to be ritually pure to eat Holy Things.
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