Niddah
Sign in to saveA niddah (alternative forms: nidda, nida, or nidah; nidá), in traditional Judaism, is a woman who has experienced a uterine discharge of blood (most commonly during menstruation), or a woman who has menstruated and not yet completed the associated requirement of immersion in a mikveh (ritual bath).
Key facts
- Halacha.rambam
- Kedushah (Holiness): Issurei Biah (forbidden sexual relations): 4–11
- Halacha.talmud
- Niddah
- Halacha.sa
- Yoreh De'ah 183–202
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26 sectionsContents
- Etymology and usage
- Hebrew Bible
- Rabbinic injunctions
- Application of the Torah
- Ritual purity aspect
- Sexual relations
- Practical laws
- Terms and definitions
- Start of menstruation
- Duration of ''niddah'' status
- Practices during ''niddah''
- Physical contact during ''niddah''
- Seven days of cleanness
- Niddah and fertility
- Checking by bedikah
- Immersion in water
- Refrainment from relations on days that menstruation is expected to begin
- Newlyweds
- Privacy of the niddah process
- Conservative Judaism
- Reform Judaism
- See also
- Further reading
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
A niddah (alternative forms: nidda, nida, or nidah; nidá), in traditional Judaism, is a woman who has experienced a uterine discharge of blood (most commonly during menstruation), or a woman who has menstruated and not yet completed the associated requirement of immersion in a mikveh (ritual bath).
In the Book of Leviticus, the Torah prohibits sexual intercourse with a niddah. The prohibition has been maintained in traditional Jewish law and by the Samaritans. It has largely been rejected by adherents of Reform Judaism and other liberal branches.
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