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# According to Ashkenazim, the bracha should be recited after she already immersed but is still in the mikveh. She should cover herself with a robe and then recite the bracha.<ref>Rama YD 200:1</ref> There is a practice to immerse before the bracha and again afterwards.<ref>Badei Hashulchan 200:13 citing the Shlah</ref>
# According to Ashkenazim, the bracha should be recited after she already immersed but is still in the mikveh. She should cover herself with a robe and then recite the bracha.<ref>Rama YD 200:1</ref> There is a practice to immerse before the bracha and again afterwards.<ref>Badei Hashulchan 200:13 citing the Shlah</ref>
# According to Sephardim, the bracha should be recited while she is just wearing a robe outside of the room where the mikveh is and then immediately go into the mikveh without speaking or making any interruptions.<Ref>Shulchan Aruch YD 200:1, Taharat Habayit v. 3 p. 202</ref>
# According to Sephardim, the bracha should be recited while she is just wearing a robe outside of the room where the mikveh is and then immediately go into the mikveh without speaking or making any interruptions.<Ref>Shulchan Aruch YD 200:1, Taharat Habayit v. 3 p. 202</ref>
# A women should recite a bracha upon tevilah whether she was unclean because of seeing a regular period or an unclean stain. However, it was only a chumra then she shouldn't recite a bracha.<ref>Aruch Hashulchan 200:1. Taharat Habayit v. 3 p. 90 adds that if there's a dispute if it is unclean she shouldn't make a bracha upon the tevilah.</ref>
# A women should recite a bracha upon tevilah whether she was unclean because of seeing a regular period or an unclean stain. However, it was only a chumra then she shouldn't recite a bracha.<ref>Aruch Hashulchan 200:1.  
* If the Rabbi wasn't sure if she is tameh and was strict to decide that she is tameh, the Aruch Hashulchan 200:1 nonetheless allows her to go to the mikveh with a bracha, however, Taharat Habayit v. 3 p. 90 argues that if there's a dispute if it is unclean she shouldn't make a bracha upon the tevilah.</ref>


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