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# After the fact, even though it is forbidden, if nonetheless a woman went to the mikveh during the day on the seventh or eighth day it is effective. Some say that it isn't effective if she went on the seventh by day.<Ref>Shulchan Aruch YD 197:5</ref> Even in such a case she should not tell her husband that she went to the mikveh and either way it is forbidden for them to be together until the night.<ref>Rama YD 197:5, Badei Hashulchan 197:67</ref> | # After the fact, even though it is forbidden, if nonetheless a woman went to the mikveh during the day on the seventh or eighth day it is effective. Some say that it isn't effective if she went on the seventh by day.<Ref>Shulchan Aruch YD 197:5</ref> Even in such a case she should not tell her husband that she went to the mikveh and either way it is forbidden for them to be together until the night.<ref>Rama YD 197:5, Badei Hashulchan 197:67</ref> | ||
===Bracha on Tevilah=== | ===Bracha on Tevilah=== | ||
# 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> According to the strict halacha she can recite the bracha while in the mikveh.<ref>Shach 200:1</ref> It is more proper to recite it only after she walks out of the water such that her head and heart are out of the water but her lower body is in the water. Alternatively, she can wrap her arms around her chest while reciting the bracha.<ref>Mishna Brurah 74:16</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. | # 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. | ||
