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# If her tevilah night is Saturday night and Yom Tov is Thursday and Friday, some say that she should prepare before Yom Tov and again after Shabbat, while others say that if unless that is the practice she should just prepare after Shabbat.<ref>Badei Hashulchan 199:58 cites this as a dispute between the Shach, who is strict, and Sidrei Tahara, who is lenient.</ref> | # If her tevilah night is Saturday night and Yom Tov is Thursday and Friday, some say that she should prepare before Yom Tov and again after Shabbat, while others say that if unless that is the practice she should just prepare after Shabbat.<ref>Badei Hashulchan 199:58 cites this as a dispute between the Shach, who is strict, and Sidrei Tahara, who is lenient.</ref> | ||
# If her tevilah night is Sunday night and Yom Tov is Sunday and Monday she should do her preparations on Friday day and again on Sunday night she should wash her concealed areas with warm water heated on Yom Tov, clean between her teeth, and check herself before tevilah.<Ref>Shulchan Aruch YD 199:6, Badei Hashulchan 199:68</ref> | # If her tevilah night is Sunday night and Yom Tov is Sunday and Monday she should do her preparations on Friday day and again on Sunday night she should wash her concealed areas with warm water heated on Yom Tov, clean between her teeth, and check herself before tevilah.<Ref>Shulchan Aruch YD 199:6, Badei Hashulchan 199:68</ref> | ||
===If She Forgot to Prepare=== | |||
# If a woman forgot to clean herself even if she checked for any chatzitza her tevilah is invalid.<ref>Shulchan Aruch 199:8</ref> | |||
# If a woman forgot to check herself before going to the mikveh even if she cleaned her hair her tevilah is invalid.<ref>Shulchan Aruch 199:8</ref> If she cleaned her hair and body but didn't check herself there is a dispute if her tevilah was valid.<ref>According to the Taz it is effective and according to the Sidrei Tahara it is not.</ref> | |||
## If a woman forgot to check the bodily cavities such as nostrils, ears, mouth, and private area, her tevilah is effective after the fact.<ref> Shulchan Aruch 199:9</ref> Additionally, even if she found a chatzitza in the bodily cavities after the tevilah and she didn't check those areas before tevilah, nonetheless, if she was dealing with the same type of material as the chatzitza she found on herself her tevilah is valid.<ref>Shulchan Aruch YD 199:12</ref> | |||
# If a woman forgot to clean her entire body but did wash and comb her hair and checked herself, after the fact her tevilah is valid.<Ref>Taharat Habayit v. 3 p. 272</ref> | |||
# If a woman washed and checked herself one day and didn't go to the mikveh until the next day, after the fact, her tevilah is valid.<ref>Shulchan Aruch YD 199:8</ref> | |||
# If a woman prepared for the tevilah and nonetheless found on herself a chatzitza after coming out of the mikveh, she needs to go to the mikveh again unless she was dealing with that same type of material as the chatzitza she found on herself.<ref>Shulchan Aruch 199:11. Even though in Shulchan Aruch 199:10 the majority opinion distinguishes whether or not she prepared for the mikveh immediately beforehand or not, the Rambam requires her to go to the mikveh either way.</ref> Ashkenazim are strict unless she is certain that the chatzitza didn't exist on her during the tevilah.<ref>Shach 199:16</ref> | |||
# If a woman prepared for the mikveh and then touched something sticky and then went to the mikveh, her tevilah is invalid.<Ref>Shulchan Aruch YD 199:13</ref> However, if she checked herself before going to the mikveh then her tevilah is valid.<ref>Rama YD 199:13</ref> | |||
==Going to the Mikveh== | ==Going to the Mikveh== | ||
