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# A woman shouldn’t be tovel on top of a step of the stairs if it is less than 4 tefachim wide because she might be afraid of slipping and not be tovel well.<ref>Shulchan Aruch YD 198:31 based on the Rashba (teshuva 828) and the conclusion of Niddah 66b.</ref>
# A woman shouldn’t be tovel on top of a step of the stairs if it is less than 4 tefachim wide because she might be afraid of slipping and not be tovel well.<ref>Shulchan Aruch YD 198:31 based on the Rashba (teshuva 828) and the conclusion of Niddah 66b.</ref>
# A woman shouldn’t be tovel in a place where she’s afraid that people will see her because she’ll be afraid of being tovel properly. After the fact if she knows that she did tovel properly it is effective.<ref>Shulchan Aruch 198:34, Sidrei Tahara 198:70</ref>
# A woman shouldn’t be tovel in a place where she’s afraid that people will see her because she’ll be afraid of being tovel properly. After the fact if she knows that she did tovel properly it is effective.<ref>Shulchan Aruch 198:34, Sidrei Tahara 198:70</ref>
==After the Mikveh==
# There is an Ashkenazic minhag not to take a shower or bath after going to the mikveh until the next night.<ref>Rama YD 201:75. Igrot Moshe YD 2:96 explains that really since the idea of taking a shower making a person tameh is only a new tumah and not invalidating the last one it shouldn't be relevant to niddah. In any event, he argues that the cutoff to when there is an issue to take a shower immediately after going to the mikveh is the halachic day.</ref> If she is fastidious and can't wait a whole day without showering after the mikveh he may do so.<Ref>Igrot Moshe YD 2:96 concludes that since the Rashbat's opinion is a minority one and it is only a minhag for a woman who can't stand waiting a day without showering may do so.</ref>
# As a matter of tzeniyut a woman should be very careful that no one should know that she went to the mikveh.<ref>Rama YD 198:48, Aruch Hashulchan 198:91</ref>
# A woman should make sure that the first thing she sees after coming out of the mikveh is something tahor and not a non-Jew or something tameh. If she did encounter something tameh first if she is a yareh shamayim she would repeat her tevilah.<ref>Rama YD 198:48, Aruch Hashulchan 198:91</ref>
==Veset==
==Veset==
After the woman went to the mikveh and has not yet seen any blood there is time when she is expecting her next period during which she is forbidden to her husband. The determination of that time and the relevant halachot are discussed on the [[Veset]] page.
After the woman went to the mikveh and has not yet seen any blood there is time when she is expecting her next period during which she is forbidden to her husband. The determination of that time and the relevant halachot are discussed on the [[Veset]] page.