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Talmud for Niddah 2:1

כָּל הַיָּד הַמַּרְבָּה לִבְדֹּק בְּנָשִׁים, מְשֻׁבַּחַת. וּבַאֲנָשִׁים, תִּקָּצֵץ. הַחֵרֶשֶׁת וְהַשּׁוֹטָה וְהַסּוּמָא וְשֶׁנִּטְרְפָה דַעְתָּהּ, אִם יֶשׁ לָהֶן פִּקְחוֹת, מְתַקְּנוֹת אוֹתָן וְהֵן אוֹכְלוֹת בַּתְּרוּמָה. דֶּרֶךְ בְּנוֹת יִשְׂרָאֵל, מְשַׁמְּשׁוֹת בִּשְׁנֵי עִדִּים, אֶחָד לוֹ וְאֶחָד לָהּ. הַצְּנוּעוֹת מְתַקְּנוֹת לָהֶן שְׁלִישִׁי, לְתַקֵּן אֶת הַבָּיִת:

Every hand that examines frequently, regarding women, this is praiseworthy; and regarding men, it should be cut off. Regarding a deaf woman, an insane woman, a blind woman, or a woman whose cognition has been impaired, if they have able-minded women [to care for them], they prepare them [i.e. help them check themselves and immerse for purity], and they may then eat <i>terumah</i> [a portion of a crop given to the priests which becomes designated as such upon separation, and can only be consumed by priests or their household, and which one is forbidden to render impure]. It is the way of the daughters of Israel to have intercourse using two checking-cloths [literally: witnesses], one for him, and one for her. The modest ones prepare a third, to prepare herself [literally: the house, before intercourse].

Tractate Kallah

[Ye that inflame yourselves among the terebinths]69The Biblical verse is inserted by H.—hence the Sages declared: A man may not put his hand to his membrum. There are three [instances of abuse by] the hand and in all three [the hand merits] amputation:70Cf. Shab. 108b (Sonc. ed., p. 529). The hand that is put to the membrum let it be cut off! The hand that is put to the eye let it be cut off! The hand that is put to the vein for blood-letting let it be cut off! ‘The hand that is put to the membrum let it be cut off!’ Because it causes sexual excitement. ‘The hand that is put to the eye, let it be cut off!’ Because it leads to blindness.71Unclean hands, especially before they are washed in the morning, cause ‘infection’. ‘The hand that is put to the vein for blood-letting let it be cut off!’ Because it leads to death.
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