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Mishnah Niddah 9:2: Regarding a man and a woman who attended to their needs into a bowl, if blood was found on the water, Rabbi Yose considers it pure, and Rabbi Shimon considers it impure, since it is not usual for a man to discharge blood; rather the presumption regarding blood is that it came from the woman.

אִישׁ וְאִשָּׁה שֶׁעָשׂוּ צְרָכֵיהֶן לְתוֹךְ הַסֵּפֶל וְנִמְצָא דָם עַל הַמַּיִם, רַבִּי יוֹסֵי מְטַהֵר. וְרַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן מְטַמֵּא, שֶׁאֵין דֶּרֶךְ הָאִישׁ לְהוֹצִיא דָם, אֶלָּא שֶׁחֶזְקַת דָּמִים מִן הָאִשָּׁה:

Mishnah Niddah 9:3: If a woman lent her robe to a gentile woman or to a niddah [a female who has menstrual discharges which render her impure], she may attribute [any bloodstain] to her. If three women wore the same robe or sat on the same bench, and blood was then found on it, they are all impure. If they sat on a stone bench or on [a ledge in] the colonnade of a bath house, Rabbi Nechemia considers them pure, for Rabbi Nechemia would say: Anything that cannot be rendered impure cannot retain a stain.

הִשְׁאִילָה חֲלוּקָהּ לְנָכְרִית אוֹ לְנִדָּה, הֲרֵי זוֹ תּוֹלָה בָהּ. שָׁלשׁ נָשִׁים שֶׁלָּבְשׁוּ חָלוּק אֶחָד אוֹ שֶׁיָּשְׁבוּ עַל סַפְסָל אֶחָד, וְנִמְצָא עָלָיו דָּם, כֻּלָּן טְמֵאוֹת. יָשְׁבוּ עַל סַפְסָל שֶׁל אֶבֶן אוֹ עַל הָאִצְטַבָּא שֶׁל מֶרְחָץ, רַבִּי נְחֶמְיָה מְטַהֵר, שֶׁהָיָה רַבִּי נְחֶמְיָה אוֹמֵר, כָּל דָּבָר שֶׁאֵינוֹ מְקַבֵּל טֻמְאָה, אֵינוֹ מְקַבֵּל כְּתָמִים:

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