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# A man is required to separate from his wife during the time she is a niddah until she has a hefsek taharah, counts seven clean days and dips in a kosher mikveh. <Ref> Torat HaTaharah p. 95, Taharat Yosef 3:1 </ref> | # A man is required to separate from his wife during the time she is a niddah until she has a hefsek taharah, counts seven clean days and dips in a kosher mikveh. <Ref> Torat HaTaharah p. 95, Taharat Yosef 3:1 </ref> | ||
# This prohibition remains even if many years have passed since she became a niddah. It remains until she has a hefsek taharah, counts seven clean days, and dips in a kosher mikveh. <ref> Torat HaTaharah p. 95, Taharat Yosef 3:2</ref> | # This prohibition remains even if many years have passed since she became a niddah. It remains until she has a hefsek taharah, counts seven clean days, and dips in a kosher mikveh. <ref> Torat HaTaharah p. 95, Taharat Yosef 3:2. | ||
# Because of the seriousness of separating from one's wife while she is a Nidda, Chazal enacted several fences to help the couple avoid situations that might bring them to transgress the prohibition of physical endearment during this period.<ref> Taharat Yosef 3:3 </ref> | * Tosfot Shabbat 13b s.v. biymey points out that from Rashi (Ketubot 61a s.v. michalfa) it sounds like there would have been leniencies of harchakot when a woman was counting her shiva nekiyim after she stopping seeing blood. Rabbenu Chananel (Ketubot 61a) also implies like rashi. However, Tosfot argues that this is totally incorrect since until the woman completed her shiva nekiyim and went to mikveh she is equally forbidden to her husband with a penalty of karet. The Rashba ([http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=8922&st=&pgnum=345 Torat Habayit 4a]), Raavad ([http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=8785&st=&pgnum=8 Baalei Hanefesh p. 10]), Rosh (Ketubot 5:24), and Rambam (Isurei Biyah 11:18) hold that really there is no difference between a women when she is seeing blood and when she is in her shiva nekiyim. The Rashba even argues that Rabbenu Chananel only meant if she went to mikveh twice but that it isn't proper to do so. See the Rivash 425 and Ramban Shabbat 13b who forbid this practice of going to mikveh twice.</ref> | ||
# Because of the seriousness of separating from one's wife while she is a Nidda, Chazal enacted several fences to help the couple avoid situations that might bring them to transgress the prohibition of physical endearment during this period.<ref> Taharat Yosef 3:3 </ref> | |||
==Touching== | ==Touching== | ||
# According to the opinion of many Rishonim, amongst them Maran HaShulchan Aruch, contact between a man and his wife who is a niddah is a biblical violation. Due to this fact, the Rabbis instituted many safeguards to prevent this. <ref> Torat HaTaharah p. 96</ref> | # According to the opinion of many Rishonim, amongst them Maran HaShulchan Aruch, contact between a man and his wife who is a niddah is a biblical violation. Due to this fact, the Rabbis instituted many safeguards to prevent this. <ref> Torat HaTaharah p. 96</ref> | ||
