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In the following generation, Rav Papa quotes this statement (BT Niddah 66a) in a discussion on abortion about a woman who labored for two days and then aborted. She was considered a woman who gave birth as a zava. Rava disagreed with Rav Papa and in another discussion (BT Berakhot 31a, which parallels the Rav Huna section mentioned above) did not accept the universality of the ple of established halakhah about which there is no dispute.

These sages, Rav Huna, Abaye, R. Zera, and Rav Papa, all lived within two generations of one another, indicating that this decree was universally accepted very quickly. Continue reading →