A woman must wait five days from the time she becomes niddah until she can begin counting the seven blood-free days. The custom in some Sephardic communities is to lớn wait only four days.

Bạn đang xem: Tìm vợ cho bà htv2

Minimum Wait

A woman must wait at least five days from the time she becomes niddah until she can begin counting the shivah neki’im (seven clean days). She counts the day on which she became niddah as the first of these five days, and then counts four full days (from sunset to sunset, according to the Jewish calendar). If she has stopped bleeding, she may perform her hefsek taharah prior khổng lồ sunset on the fifth day.

Thus, a woman who becomes niddah between sunset on Saturday and sunset on on Sunday may bởi her hefsek taharah on Thursday – the fifth day. She begins counting her shivah neki’im on Thursday night and Friday day (the sixth day from becoming niddah). Thursday is the earliest day for her hefsek taharah.

Some Sephardic authorities permit women lớn perform a hefsek taharah on the fourth day and begin the shivah neki’im on the fifth day (both a day earlier than what we presented above). In that case, in our example, a woman who has stopped bleeding by Wednesday could perform her hefsek taharah then.

Many women have longer menses and, in practice, are not able lớn perform a hefsek taharah as early as the fifth day of their period.

Even a woman whose menses are short, or who has become niddah because of mid-cycle staining, may not start her shivah neki’im until the sixth day from the onset of her niddah status.

However, a halachic authority may allow a wait of only four days when there are very extenuating circumstances, such as a couple having great difficulty conceiving.

When a bride has become niddah from dam betulim (hymenal bleeding), a four-day wait is sufficient according khổng lồ all traditions. However, if she is also gets her period, she needs to wait the usual five days.

The minimum days begin when a woman becomes niddah. A woman who is already in the niddah status, and experiences a new episode of bleeding, does not need to count the minimum days again. For example, a woman who experiences bleeding during her shivah neki’im may perform a new hefsek taharah as soon as the bleeding stops. Similarly, if a woman never immersed in the mikveh following her menstrual period (e.g., she & her husband were in different cities for the entire month or she is a bride before her wedding), she does not need lớn wait the minimum days when she gets her next period.

The source of this halacha is as follows:

Women commonly expel semen for a few days after intercourse. A day on which this occurs cannot be counted as one of the shivah neki’im.

A woman who is unaware that she has expelled semen may mistakenly count the cancelled day & immerse in the mikveh too early. Because such an immersion would be invalid, she might unknowingly violate the laws of niddah.

From a halachic standpoint, semen is considered viable for 72 hours, after which it has no further halachic significance. Therefore, khổng lồ be certain there can be no halachically significant seminal expulsion during the shivah neki’im, at least 72 hours must elapse from the time a woman has intercourse until she begins to lớn count. Moreover, since the 72 hours may begin in the middle of one calendar day & extend lớn the middle of the fourth day, she cannot start khổng lồ count the shivah neki’im until the fifth day.

That is why some Sephardic authorities permit women khổng lồ perform a hefsek taharah on the fourth day (not the fifth). The halacha in most communities, however, is lớn wait until the fifth day, to avoid problems should a woman have intercourse shortly after sunset, và mistakenly count the outgoing day as the first of the four days.

Xem thêm: Nhạc Phim Ngôi Sao May Mắn, Ái Phương Cover Nhạc Nhật Bản

Beginning the Minimum Wait

A woman may begin counting the shivah neki’im no earlier than the sixth day from the onset of niddah, or the fifth day in some Sephardi communities.

Staining

The five day minimum begins from the day a woman enters the status of niddah, even if the cause is not a flow. Therefore, if she becomes niddah from a stain on clothing or a bedikah cloth, or from a medical procedure, the day she becomes niddah is day one of the five day minimum.

The five day minimum also begins from the point in time at which a couple acts as if niddah has begun (including observing the harchakot) out of doubt concerning niddah status. For example, a woman discovers a questionable stain on Monday. She tells her husband that she might be niddah; the couple immediately begin lớn follow the laws of niddah out of doubt over her status & she sends the stain for halachic evaluation. On Tuesday, before she has received a ruling on the stain, she begins her menses & is definitely niddah. She may count Monday, the day she acted as niddah, towards the five day minimum even if it is later determined that the staining on Monday did not make her niddah.

However, when a woman has non-niddah staining và a couple abstains from relations as a precaution against a flow beginning during relations, this abstention does not count toward the five day minimum.

If the distinction between halachic prohibition and careful practice is unclear, an individual halachic question should be asked.

Relations

The minimum wait was instituted khổng lồ avoid expulsion of viable semen during the shivah neki’im. However – for all Ashkenazim and in some Sephardi communities – it is required even where the couple did not actually have intercourse for some time before the onset of niddah. This ensures unity of practice & applies even if relations were completely impossible before the woman became niddah (e.g., the husband & wife were in different cities).

In some Sephardi communities, the minimum days are counted from the last time the couple had relations before niddah và in some cases, a woman can further shorten or even eliminate her wait by washing internally following relations.

Questions arise when relations are halachically forbidden for reasons other than niddah. Can those days be counted towards the minimum? There is some halachic debate in this area, so in practice an individual question should be asked. Here we explore several such situations one by one:

Consecutive Vesatot

Marital relations are forbidden on veset days (onot perishah). If a woman has a full 24-hour veset immediately followed by another veset, & becomes niddah during the second veset, she may be able lớn count her minimum days from the beginning of the first veset. This situation can apply lớn those who keep onah beinonit for 24 hours and have another onat perishah come out the following evening. It can also apply to lớn women who keep the onah of the Or Zarua prior lớn every veset, have two of these come out back khổng lồ back, và start to lớn bleed during the latter one. So too, days of separation due khổng lồ a veset haguf may be counted towards the five day minimum.

Yom Kippur or Tisha B’Av

Marital relations are forbidden on Tisha B’Av và Yom Kippur. If a woman becomes niddah during a nighttime onat perishah immediately following one of these fast days – so that relations were prohibited continuously for the 24 hour fast day and the following night – some poskim allow the fast day lớn be considered the first day of the minimum wait.

Aveilut (mourning)

Marital relations are forbidden when either the wife or husband is sitting shivah. If the wife becomes niddah during aveilut, some halachic authorities would allow the minimum days khổng lồ begin from the onset of aveilut, while others would not.

Users of mạng internet filtering services:This site discusses sensitive subjects that some services filter without visual indication. A page that appears 100% complete might actually be missing critical Jewish-law or medical information. To lớn ensure that you view the pages accurately, ask the filtering service khổng lồ whitelist all pages under mochijewellery.com.

All health và health-related information contained within Nishmat's Women's Health & Halacha web site is intended khổng lồ be general in nature & should not be used as a substitute forconsultingwithyourhealth care professional. The advice is intended to lớn offer a basis for individuals lớn discuss their medical condition with their health care providerbut not individual advice. Although every effort is made to ensure that the material withinNishmat's Women's Health & HalachaWeb site is accurate andtimely, it is provided for the convenience of the web site userbutshould not be considered official. Advice for actual medical practice should be obtained from a licensed health care professional.