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Please note that these halachot are from the Sefer Torat HaTaharah | Please note that these halachot are from the Sefer Torat HaTaharah of Rav Dovid Yosef, son of Rav Ovadyah Yosef, a Sephardi Posek. | ||
==Basic laws== | ==Basic laws== | ||
# A man is required to separate from his wife during the time she is a niddah until she has a hefsek taharah, counts seven clean days and dips in a kosher mikveh. <Ref> Torat HaTaharah p. 95 </ref> | # A man is required to separate from his wife during the time she is a niddah until she has a hefsek taharah, counts seven clean days and dips in a kosher mikveh. <Ref> Torat HaTaharah p. 95 </ref> | ||
# This prohibition remains even if many years have passed since she became a niddah. It remains until she has a hefsek taharah, counts seven clean days, and dips in a kosher mikveh. <ref> Torat HaTaharah p. 95</ref> | # This prohibition remains even if many years have passed since she became a niddah. It remains until she has a hefsek taharah, counts seven clean days, and dips in a kosher mikveh. <ref> Torat HaTaharah p. 95</ref> | ||
# According to the opinion of many Rishonim, amongst them Maran | # According to the opinion of many Rishonim, amongst them Maran HaShulchan Aruch, contact between a man and his wife who is a niddah is a biblical violation. Due to this fact, the Rabbis instituted many safeguards to prevent this. <ref> Torat HaTaharah p. 96</ref> | ||
# One should be careful not to act in an overly frivolous and light-headed manner when his wife is a niddah, nor should they speak of intimate matters, in order that they not come to transgress. <ref> Torat HaTaharah p. 96-97</ref> | # One should be careful not to act in an overly frivolous and light-headed manner when his wife is a niddah, nor should they speak of intimate matters, in order that they not come to transgress. <ref> Torat HaTaharah p. 96-97</ref> | ||
# A man is permitted to be alone (yichud) in a room or house with a wife when she is a niddah. However, a man may not have yichud with any other woman, married or single. | # A man is permitted to be alone ([[yichud]]) in a room or house with a wife when she is a niddah. However, a man may not have [[yichud]] with any other woman, married or single. | ||
# If a bride is a niddah at her wedding, the bride and groom may not be alone together. The couple must have a constant chaperone. <ref> Torat HaTaharah p. 97</ref> Due to the sensitive nature of such situations and the severity of any misconduct, a competent Rabbi should be consulted for instruction. | # If a bride is a niddah at her wedding, the bride and groom may not be alone together. The couple must have a constant chaperone. <ref> Torat HaTaharah p. 97</ref> Due to the sensitive nature of such situations and the severity of any misconduct, a competent Rabbi should be consulted for instruction. | ||
# A man is forbidden to touch his wife even with just his small finger when she is a niddah. He may not even touch her clothing, nor she his, even if the clothing hangs loosely off the body and the person will not feel the touch. They should be also be careful that the clothing of one does not touch the clothing of the other. <ref> Torat HaTaharah p. 97</ref> | # A man is forbidden to touch his wife even with just his small finger when she is a niddah. He may not even touch her clothing, nor she his, even if the clothing hangs loosely off the body and the person will not feel the touch. They should be also be careful that the clothing of one does not touch the clothing of the other. <ref> Torat HaTaharah p. 97</ref> | ||
