16,374
edits
Chatzitza: Difference between revisions
From Halachipedia
→Hair
(→Hair) |
|||
| Line 66: | Line 66: | ||
# Hair lice should be removed with hot water and scratching with a nail. However, if she can’t remove them they are not a chatzitza.<ref>Shulchan Aruch YD 198:47</ref> | # Hair lice should be removed with hot water and scratching with a nail. However, if she can’t remove them they are not a chatzitza.<ref>Shulchan Aruch YD 198:47</ref> | ||
# Some communities have a practice to cut their hair after their wedding. Even though the hair is going to be cut it isn't a chatzitza when they go to the mikveh before the wedding.<ref>Chatom Sofer 195 holds that the hair isn't a chatzitza even though it is going to be cut (and should be a chatzitza according to the Raavan 326 cited by Shach 198:25) since it isn't going to be cut prior to the wedding. Igrot Moshe YD 2:88 argues with his proof but agrees with his position for another reason; since the hair is adorns a woman even though she's going to cut it because of a minhag it isn't like it is cut already.</ref> | # Some communities have a practice to cut their hair after their wedding. Even though the hair is going to be cut it isn't a chatzitza when they go to the mikveh before the wedding.<ref>Chatom Sofer 195 holds that the hair isn't a chatzitza even though it is going to be cut (and should be a chatzitza according to the Raavan 326 cited by Shach 198:25) since it isn't going to be cut prior to the wedding. Igrot Moshe YD 2:88 argues with his proof but agrees with his position for another reason; since the hair is adorns a woman even though she's going to cut it because of a minhag it isn't like it is cut already.</ref> | ||
# A woman who usually shaves her legs before the mikveh and forgot, after the fact the tevilah is effective.<ref>Badei Hashulchan 198:148 based on Taz 198:21</ref> | |||
# The practice nowadays is that married women don't shave their pubic hair and it isn't considered a chatzitza.<ref>Chida in Shiurei Bracha 198:2, Taharat Habayit v. 3 p. 25</ref> | |||
==Nails== | ==Nails== | ||
