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are given to all women during their regular monthly menstrual cycle, known as the days of the menstruate (niddah), even if her actual period lasted only 3 to 5 days. From the eighth day after the beginning of her period (the terminus post quem, or the earliest date in which they begin to reckon the case of a zavah), when she should have typically concluded her period, these are days that are known in Hebrew as the days of a running issue (Hebrew: zivah), and which defines

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