16,374
edits
Preparing for the Mikveh: Difference between revisions
From Halachipedia
→Tevilah by Day
| Line 77: | Line 77: | ||
* The gemara continues to ask why nowadays with the chumra of Rabbi Zeira a woman can't go to mikveh during the seventh day. It answers that the rabbis prohibited it lest the couples is together that day and then she sees blood, retroactively invalidating her tevilah. Tosfot s.v. aval explains that the gemara means that it is forbidden to go to mikveh during the day lest they are together afterwards. Rashi s.v. liydei implies this as well. The [http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=8785&st=&pgnum=90 Baal Hameor (Baalei Hanefesh Shaar Hatevilah ch. 1 no. 1)], however, understands that the gemara means that it is forbidden for them to be together on the seventh day but it is permitted to go to the mikveh. The Ramban (Niddah 67b s.v. ubevaday), Rashba (67b s.v. ubenemukei), and Rambam (according to the Bet Yosef 183 s.v. veyesh) understand the gemara similarly to the Baal Hameor but nonetheless say that because of the prohibition for the couple to be together it is also forbidden for her to go to the mikveh during the day. | * The gemara continues to ask why nowadays with the chumra of Rabbi Zeira a woman can't go to mikveh during the seventh day. It answers that the rabbis prohibited it lest the couples is together that day and then she sees blood, retroactively invalidating her tevilah. Tosfot s.v. aval explains that the gemara means that it is forbidden to go to mikveh during the day lest they are together afterwards. Rashi s.v. liydei implies this as well. The [http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=8785&st=&pgnum=90 Baal Hameor (Baalei Hanefesh Shaar Hatevilah ch. 1 no. 1)], however, understands that the gemara means that it is forbidden for them to be together on the seventh day but it is permitted to go to the mikveh. The Ramban (Niddah 67b s.v. ubevaday), Rashba (67b s.v. ubenemukei), and Rambam (according to the Bet Yosef 183 s.v. veyesh) understand the gemara similarly to the Baal Hameor but nonetheless say that because of the prohibition for the couple to be together it is also forbidden for her to go to the mikveh during the day. | ||
* Shulchan Aruch YD 197:3 rules like all of the rishonim besides the baal hameor that it is forbidden for a woman to go to the mikveh nowadays during the day.</ref> | * Shulchan Aruch YD 197:3 rules like all of the rishonim besides the baal hameor that it is forbidden for a woman to go to the mikveh nowadays during the day.</ref> | ||
# A bride the day of her wedding can go to the mikveh by day if the Chupah of the wedding is at night.<ref>Rama 197:3, Dagul Mirvavah 197:3.</ref> In a pressing circumstance it is permitted to have the Chupah by day as long as the yichud is at night.<ref>Badei Hashulchan 197:48 based on Rabbi Akiva Eiger responsa 2:71</ref> | # A bride the day of her wedding can go to the mikveh by day if the Chupah of the wedding is at night.<ref>Rama 197:3, Dagul Mirvavah 197:3, Taharat Habayit v. 2 p. 467</ref> In a pressing circumstance it is permitted to have the Chupah by day as long as the yichud is at night.<ref>Badei Hashulchan 197:48 based on Rabbi Akiva Eiger responsa 2:71</ref> | ||
# In cases where it is impossible to go to the mikveh during the night such as because of danger, a woman may go to the mikveh during the day on the eighth day of her Shiva Nekiyim but not her seventh day.<ref>Gemara Niddah 67b, Shulchan Aruch 197:4</ref> | # In cases where it is impossible to go to the mikveh during the night such as because of danger, a woman may go to the mikveh during the day on the eighth day of her Shiva Nekiyim but not her seventh day.<ref>Gemara Niddah 67b, Shulchan Aruch 197:4</ref> | ||
# After the fact, even though it is forbidden, if nonetheless a woman went to the mikveh during the day on the seventh or eighth day it is effective. Some say that it isn't effective if she went on the seventh by day.<Ref>Shulchan Aruch YD 197:5</ref> Even in such a case she should not tell her husband that she went to the mikveh and either way it is forbidden for them to be together until the night.<ref>Rama YD 197:5, Badei Hashulchan 197:67</ref> | # After the fact, even though it is forbidden, if nonetheless a woman went to the mikveh during the day on the seventh or eighth day it is effective. Some say that it isn't effective if she went on the seventh by day.<Ref>Shulchan Aruch YD 197:5</ref> Even in such a case she should not tell her husband that she went to the mikveh and either way it is forbidden for them to be together until the night.<ref>Rama YD 197:5, Badei Hashulchan 197:67</ref> | ||
