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* The Shach 120:36 writes that having someone else hold on to a woman when she’s in the mikveh is only effective after the fact. The Sidrei Tahara 198:57 agrees but for another reason. Therefore, he concludes that a woman who needs support in the mikveh should have someone hold her one hand above the water and then hold her with another hand below the water, and finally adjust the hand above the water to another position below the water. This satisfies the opinion of the Taz and Rama.</ref> | * The Shach 120:36 writes that having someone else hold on to a woman when she’s in the mikveh is only effective after the fact. The Sidrei Tahara 198:57 agrees but for another reason. Therefore, he concludes that a woman who needs support in the mikveh should have someone hold her one hand above the water and then hold her with another hand below the water, and finally adjust the hand above the water to another position below the water. This satisfies the opinion of the Taz and Rama.</ref> | ||
# A woman should not have to pick up her feet when she's in the mikveh if the floor of the mikveh is clean.<ref>The Rosh (Mikvaot no. 21) writes that since the water touches the feet before it touches the floor there is automatically a layer of water surrounding the feet and so she doesn't have to pick up her feet when she is tovel. The Raavad (cited by Bet Yosef 198:28) and Rashba (Torat Habayit Hakatzar 31b) agree. Shulchan Aruch 198:30 codifies this halacha.</ref> | # A woman should not have to pick up her feet when she's in the mikveh if the floor of the mikveh is clean.<ref>The Rosh (Mikvaot no. 21) writes that since the water touches the feet before it touches the floor there is automatically a layer of water surrounding the feet and so she doesn't have to pick up her feet when she is tovel. The Raavad (cited by Bet Yosef 198:28) and Rashba (Torat Habayit Hakatzar 31b) agree. Shulchan Aruch 198:30 codifies this halacha.</ref> | ||
====Mikveh Lady==== | |||
# A woman needs to have a mikveh lady to watch her as she goes into the mikveh to water that her hair completely went under the water. If it is at night or it is impossible to have someone watch her when she’s tovel she can loosely tie a string or cloth around her hair to ensure that all of the hair goes under the water.<ref>Shulchan Aruch YD 198:40</ref> If she didn’t have anyone watching her to see the hair go under the water or didn’t tie her hair loosely then her tevilah is invalid.<ref>Pitchei Teshuva 198:22 citing Rabbi Akiva Eiger</ref> | |||
===Medical Circumstances=== | ===Medical Circumstances=== | ||
