Related%20passage for Niddah 1:5

אֵיזוֹהִי זְקֵנָה. כֹּל שֶׁעָבְרוּ עָלֶיהָ שָׁלשׁ עוֹנוֹת סָמוּךְ לְזִקְנָתָהּ. רַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר אוֹמֵר, כָּל אִשָּׁה שֶׁעָבְרוּ עָלֶיהָ שָׁלשׁ עוֹנוֹת, דַּיָּהּ שְׁעָתָהּ. רַבִּי יוֹסֵי אוֹמֵר, מְעֻבֶּרֶת וּמֵנִיקָה שֶׁעָבְרוּ עֲלֵיהֶן שָׁלשׁ עוֹנוֹת, דַּיָּן שְׁעָתָן:

Who is [considered] an elderly woman? Anyone who has gone through three seasons [without menstruating], approaching her old age. Rabbi Eliezer says: any woman [i.e. young or old] who has gone through three seasons [without menstruating], her hour [of discovering blood] suffices [to reckon her impurity from that moment]. Rabbi Yose says: a pregnant or nursing woman who has gone through three seasons [without menstruating], their hour suffices [to render them impure only from the moment of discovering blood].

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