161.1) You should immerse your entire body together with all your hair at one time. 161.2) Mucus in the eye is considered an interposition if it is on the outside. 161.3) Dried blood on a wound is considered an interposition. 161.4) Plaster on a wound is considered an interposition. 161.5) Fecal matter on the body…
160.1) A woman must thoroughly wash her entire body with warm water on the seventh day of purification and thoroughly cleanse her hair and disentangle it. 160.2) Do not cleanse hair with ingredients that tend to tangle it. 160.3) If a bath does not adjoin the ritual pool, she should comb her hair in the…
159.1) A woman who perceives blood during her period of purity should count five pure days, including the day on which she perceived the flow. 159.2) When traveling, if a woman cannot obtain enough water to wash herself, it does not retard the “end of her menstrual period.” She should wipe herself as best she…
158.1 ) After giving birth, a woman is unclean. For length of uncleanness, see the source. 158.2) A husband must separate from his wife on the forty-first night after the birth of a male ,and on the eighty-first night after the birth of a female. 158.3) If a woman has a miscarriage, she should respond…
157.1) A woman making preparation for her wedding must first count seven clean days. 157.2) If the wedding is postponed for any reason, she must again count seven clean days. 157.3) A woman should purify herself from an unclean state before she gets married. 157.4) A woman remarrying must count seven clean days also. 157.5)…
156.1) If a woman bleeds due to cohabitation, she may have intercourse again after purifying herself. 156.2) She should examine herself after a second time of intercourse to ascertain that the flow is from the cohabitation and not a menstrual time. 156.3) If a woman thinks she has become unclean during cohabitation, she should inform…
155.1) A woman should separate herself from her husband the day before her flow begins (an onah “either a day or a night”). 155.2) Some define an onah as twenty-four hours. 155.3) A woman who has a thirty-day, intervening period between menstruations is considered to have regular menstruations. 155.4) When a woman perceives blood, she…
154.1) Regular time of menses is determined by three consecutive times. 154.2) Most women calculate the time by days between cycles. 154.3) Some women find it difficult to predict. Three consecutive acts may be considered menses regulated by physical symptoms. (See source for details, or consult a rabbi.) 154.4) Some women calculate the regular days…
153.1) If even a drop of blood comes from a woman’s womb, she is considered menstrually unclean. 153.2) If she does not feel the blood, but sees a stain on her clothes or sheets, she is unclean. 153.3) If a woman feels she has begun to menstruate even with no evidence, she is unclean. 153.4)…
152.1) Do not be alone with a woman unless you are her father. 152.2) If you are with your wife, you may be in the presence of another woman. 152.3) One woman may be alone with two virtuous men. 152.4) A man may be in the presence of the man and his wife. 152.5) A…