A gentile woman who discharges semen from a Jew is impure. A Jewish woman who discharges semen from a gentile is pure. If a woman had intercourse with her husband, [literally: her house] and she descended and immersed but did not clean herself [literally: clean the house], it is as though she did not immerse. If <i>ba'al keri</i> immersed before urinating, when he urinates he becomes impure. Rabbi Yose says: [only] regarding one who was sick or elderly is he impure; but a child or a healthy person is pure.
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טמאה – the drop of effusion of semen that she discharged.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Mikvaot
If a non-Jewish woman discharged semen from an Israelite, it is unclean. If an Israelite woman discharged semen from a non-Jewish man, it is clean. In general, non-Jews were considered to be outside the scope of the Israelite purity laws. Only semen from an Israelite is considered halakhically unclean. Therefore, the religion of the woman who discharged the semen is irrelevant; only the religion of the man has any relevance.
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טהורה – and there isn’t even the [ritual] impurity of the Rabbis.
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If a woman had intercourse and then went down and immersed herself but did not sweep out the house, it is as though she had not immersed herself. "Sweeping out the house" is a euphemism for a woman cleaning herself out after sexual relations with a man. If she does not clean herself out, the semen defiles her when she immerses from the mikveh.
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ולא כבדה את הבית – did not wipe out/cleanse herself until there would not remain the moistness of the effusion of semen.
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If a man who had a seminal emission immersed himself but did not first pass urine, he again becomes unclean when he passes urine. Rabbi Yose says: if he was sick or old he is unclean, but if he was young and healthy he remains clean. Urinating will flush out the semen that remains in the man. Therefore, he should urinate before he immerses in the mikveh. If he does not, he remains unclean. Rabbi Yose says that this is so only with an old or sick person, who evidently does not ejaculate with quite as much vigor. A young healthy male expels all of the semen and therefore does not need to urinate in order to clear himself out.
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כאילו לא טבלה – for we are concerned lest she emit a drop of semen that remained in her in that place.
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לכשיטיל מים טמא (when he does urinate he is unclean) – lest there remain from the emission within the member and he goes out with the urination.
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בילד ובבריא טהור – that it comes out with power and does not remain. And until when is he called a child? All the while that he stands on one foot and removes his shoe and puts on his shoe, and even at age eighty. And the Halakha is according to Rabbi Yossi.
