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# 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== | ==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> | ===Showering or Bathing=== | ||
# 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> | |||
===Keeping Privacy=== | |||
# 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> | # 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> | ||
===What the Woman Sees when she Emerges=== | |||
# 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> | # 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> | ||
===Telling her Husband that she is Pure=== | |||
# A woman who was known to be a niddah, cannot be with her husband until she tells him that she has been to the mikveh.<ref> Shulchan Aruch 185:1 </ref> The poskim debate if she needs to actually say that she is pure, or that if behavior dictates that she is pure, you can rely on that. <ref> Pitchei teshuva 185:1 quotes Chavot Daat that even if her behavior dictates that she’s clean, you need to hear it from her. However, Taharat Habayit vol. 1 pg. 153 is lenient if she merely lies down next to him, indicating that she is pure. Badei Hashulchan 185:7 writes that even if one requires a woman to make some sort of verbal indication, she does not have to actually say the word "טבלתי"; if he asks her “Did you go to the mikveh?” and she says “Yes” or nods, then obviously that is enough. He says that it would even be enough if she has a standard, albeit non-verbal way of indicating to him that she has gone to the mikveh, such as handing him the car keys when she returns. The point is that, even according to those who are machmir, it is sufficient if he receives some clear indication that she has gone to the mikveh. </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. | ||
