When a woman finds a ketam, a blood stain, in her clothing, the rabbis are permitted to rule leniently about her status as ritually impure. If she borrows a cloak from a friend, she is still considered to be ritually pure as long as she has a reason that the blood could belong to someone else. The blood might even belong to her, but if it likely comes from an opened wound, it does not render her ritually impure.
Today's daf considers when three women present with questions about ritual purity. If two of the women are deemed ritually pure, the third will have to be deemed ritually impure. The rabbis are permitted to look for leniencies; however, they are encouraged to keep stringency in mind.
The rabbis argue about the exact meaning of the Gemara's descriptions of these three women. It is difficult to discern the narratives of this example.
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